Good Morning Deploreables

It is Saturday 9/23/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1862 Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

• American Revolution

• 1776 Patriot executed for spying

• Automotive

• 1953 The famous “four-level” opens in Los Angeles

• Civil War

• 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is announced

• Cold War

• 1961 President Kennedy signs Peace Corps legislation

• Crime

• 1980 So-called Midtown Stabber kills his first victim

• Disaster

• 1993 Train derails in Alabama swamp

• General Interest

• 1776 American Patriot executed for spying
• 1828 Shaka Zulu assassinated
• 1914 U-boat devastates British squadron
• 1927 Dempsey loses on long count
• 1980 Iran-Iraq War

• Hollywood

• 1994 Friends debuts

• Literary

• 1598 Playwright Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter

• Music

• 1985 The first “Farm Aid” concert is held in Champaign, Illinois

• Old West

• 1554 Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold

• Presidential

• 1975 President Ford survives second assassination attempt

• Sports

• 1927 Controversial long count mars Tunney-

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Goldwater attacks Johnson’s Vietnam policy
• 1971 Medina is acquitted of all charges

• World War I

• 1914 German U-boat devastates British squadron

• World War II

• 1945 Patton questions necessity of Germany’s “denazification”