Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 9/8/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1974 Ford pardons Nixon

• American Revolution

• 1781 Bloody battle begins at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina

• Automotive

• 1986 Nissan’s first European factory opens

• Civil War

• 1863 Rebels thwart Yankees at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass

• Cold War

• 1945 American troops arrive in Korea to partition the country

• Crime

• 1935 Huey Long is shot
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• Disaster

• 1900 Deadly hurricane batters Texas

• General Interest

• 1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York
• 1900 Deadly hurricane destroys Galveston
• 1941 Siege of Leningrad begins

• Hollywood

• 1986 Oprah goes national

• Literary

• 1947 Ann Beattie is born

• Music

• 2003 RIAA begins suing individual sharers of copyrighted mp3 files

• Old West

• 1810 The Pacific Fur Company’s first ship leaves for Oregon

• Presidential

• 1974 President Ford pardons former President Nixon

• Sports

• 1998 McGwire passes Maris

• Vietnam War

• 1954 SEATO established
• 1968 ARVN general killed

• World War I

• 1915 German airship hits central London

• World War II

• 1943 Italian surrender is announced