Good Morning Deploreables

It is Saturday 9/30/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

• American Revolution

• 1776 Washington blames militia for problems

• Automotive

• 1955 James Dean dies in car accident

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Poplar Springs Church (Peeble’s Farm)

• Cold War

• 1949 Berlin Airlift ends

• Crime

• 1994 A Texas college student kills his ex-girlfriend

• Disaster

• 1999 Radiation released at Japanese plant

• General Interest

• 1399 Henry IV proclaimed
• 1938 Munich Pact signed
• 1955 James Dean dies
• 1962 Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss

• Hollywood

• 2005 Eisner resigns as Disney CEO

• Literary

• 1868 First volume of Little Women is published
• 1928 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best-selling author, is born

• Music

• 1935 Johnny Mathis is born

• Old West

• 1889 Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote

• Presidential

• 1918 President Woodrow Wilson speaks in favor of female suffrage

• Sports

• 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season

• Vietnam War

• 1964 First large scale antiwar demonstration staged at Berkeley
• 1968 Humphrey announces that he would halt the bombing of North Vietnam

• World War I

• 1918 Turks abandon Damascus as Allies approach

• World War II

• 1938 Hitler appeased at Munich