Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 8/30/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1967 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice

• American Revolution

• 1776 Washington refuses Howe’s letter

• Automotive

• 2006 California Senate passes Global Warming Solutions Act

• Civil War

• 1862 Rebels rout Yankees at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky

• Cold War

• 1963 The U.S.-Soviet “hot line” goes into operation
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• Crime

• 1989 A murdering couple is sentenced to death

• Disaster

• 1974 Train crashes into station in Yugoslavia

• General Interest

• 1918 Vladimir Lenin shot
• 1963 The U.S.-Soviet “hot line” goes into operation
• 1983 First African American in space

• Hollywood

• 2003 Movie tough guy Charles Bronson dies

• Literary

• 1904 Henry James returns to the U.S.

• Music

• 1980 Christopher Cross has his first of two #1 hits with “Sailing”

• Old West

• 1880 Apache Chief Diablo is killed

• Presidential

• 1963 Hotline established between Washington and Moscow

• Sports

• 1965 Casey Stengel retires

• Vietnam War

• 1966 China agrees to provide aid to North Vietnam
• 1969 Ho Chi Minh responds to Nixon letter
• 1970 Elections held in South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1918 The Belfort Ruse

• World War II

• 1945 MacArthur arrives in Japan