Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 9/1/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1864 Atlanta falls to Union forces

• American Revolution

• 1775 King George refuses Olive Branch Petition

• Automotive

• 1998 Federal legislation makes airbags mandatory

• Civil War

• 1862 North and South clash at the Battle of Chantilly

• Cold War

• 1983 Korean Airlines flight shot down by Soviet Union

• Crime

• 1981 A teenage boy murders his father
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• Disaster

• 1894 Minnesota town burns

• General Interest

• 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted
• 1939 Germans invade Poland
• 1969 Qaddafi leads coup in Libya
• 1985 Wreck of the Titanic found
• 2004 Chechen separatists storm Russian school

• Hollywood

• 2007 Penn’s Into the Wild premieres

• Literary

• 1928 Robert Pirsig is born

• Music

• 1850 P.T. Barnum brings Jenny Lind to New York

• Old West

• 1836 First Anglo women settle west of the Rockies

• Presidential

• 1802 Richmond Recorder publishes report of presidential concubine

• Sports

• 1964 First Japanese player makes MLB debut

• Vietnam War

• 1966 De Gaulle urges the United States to get out of Vietnam
• 1968 Fighter pilot nominated for Medal of Honor
• 1970 McGovern-Hatfield amendment defeated in the Senate

• World War I

• 1917 Soldier recounts brush with poison gas

• World War II

• 1939 Germany invades Poland