Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 9/5/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1836 Sam Houston elected as president of Texas

• American Revolution

• 1774 First session of Continental Congress convenes

• Automotive

• 1957 The New York Times gives “On the Road” a rave review

• Civil War

• 1863 U.S. foreign minister threatens the British over ships

• Cold War

• 1958 Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago appears in the United States

• Crime

• 1972 Arab terrorists take Israeli hostages at the Olympics

• Disaster

• 1666 Londoners desperately attempt to halt fire
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• General Interest

• 1774 First Continental Congress convenes
• 1877 Crazy Horse killed
• 1905 Russo-Japanese peace treaty signed
• 1914 Battle of the Marne begins
• 1975 Ford assassination attempt thwarted

• Hollywood

• 2005 Katie Couric makes network anchor debut

• Literary

• 1957 On the Road is published

• Music

• 1964 “House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals tops the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1847 Outlaw Jesse James is born in Missouri

• Presidential

• 1975 Gerald Ford survives first assassination attempt

• Sports

• 1972 Massacre begins at Munich Olympics

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Calley charged for My Lai massacre
• 1970 U.S. forces launch last major American operation of the war

• World War I

• 1914 Joffre gives order to attack at the Marne

• World War II

• 1943 U.S. forces seize more of New Guinea