Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 9/2/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1969 First ATM opens for business

• American Revolution

• 1789 Congress founds U.S. Treasury

• Automotive

• 1959 Ford introduces the compact, fuel-efficient Falcon

• Civil War

• 1862 McClellan is restored to full command

• Cold War

• 1987 Trial of Mathias Rust begins

• Crime

• 1998 A UN court hands down the first international conviction for genocide

• Disaster

• 1923 Great Tokyo Fire continues to blaze

• General Interest

• 31 B.C. The Battle of Actium
• 1666 Great Fire of London begins
• 1945 Japan surrenders
• 1945 Vietnam independence proclaimed
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• Hollywood

• 1973 Lord of the Rings creator Tolkien dies

• Literary

• 1946 The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill, opens on Broadway

• Music

• 1996 Michael Jackson earns his 12th and final solo #1 with “You Are Not Alone”

• Old West

• 1885 Whites massacre Chinese in Wyoming Territory

• Presidential

• 1944 Navy aviator George H.W. Bush and his squadron attacked

• Sports

• 1991 Connors celebrates birthday with win at U.S. Open
• 2013 Diana Nyad, 64, makes record swim from Cuba to Florida

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies
• 1972 47th North Vietnamese MiG shot down

• World War I

• 1917 Fatherland Party formally launched in Germany

• World War II

• 1945 Allies celebrate V-J Day