Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 9/16/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1932 Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation

• American Revolution

• 1776 Battle of Harlem Heights restores American confidence

• Automotive

• 1908 William Durant creates General Motors

• Civil War

• 1832 Confederate General Custis Lee is born

• Cold War

• 1950 United Nations essay contest angers Soviets

• Crime

• 1845 Murder in Illinois
• 2013 Gunman kills 12 in D.C. Navy Yard massacre
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• Disaster

• 1978 Killer quake shakes Iran

• General Interest

• 1620 Mayflower departs England
• 1810 Mexican War of Independence begins
• 1977 Maria Callas dies
• 1982 Massacres at Sabra and Shatila

• Hollywood

• 1993 Frasier debuts

• Literary

• 1943 James Alan McPherson is born

• Music

• 1977 Opera star Maria Callas dies

• Old West

• 1893 Settlers race to claim land

• Presidential

• 1940 Franklin Roosevelt approves military draft

• Sports

• 1981 Leonard knocks out Hearns to unify middleweight title

• Vietnam War

• 1960 U.S. Ambassador in Saigon warns that situation is worsening
• 1969 Nixon announces the withdrawal of a further 35,000 troops from Vietnam

• World War I

• 1916 Hindenburg gives order to strengthen German defenses

• World War II

• 1940 United States imposes the draft