Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 9/12/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1940 Lascaux cave paintings discovered

• American Revolution

• 1777 Congress receives news of defeat at Brandywine

• Automotive

• 1993 New floating bridge opens in Seattle; I-90 stretches from coast to coast

• Civil War

• 1861 The First Battle of Lexington, Missouri, begins

• Cold War

• 1990 German occupation rights are relinquished

• Crime

• 2002 Tyco execs indicted

• Disaster

• 1988 Hurricane Gilbert slams Jamaica
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• General Interest

• 1953 JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier
• 1953 Khrushchev elected Soviet leader
• 1974 Violence in Boston over racial busing
• 1977 Steven Biko dies

• Hollywood

• 2004 Season One of Entourage–a TV show about life in Hollywood–comes to an end

• Literary

• 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope

• Music

• 1944 Barry White is born

• Old West

• 1972 Hopalong Cassidy rides off into his last sunset

• Presidential

• 1953 John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island

• Sports

• 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson wins back belt

• Vietnam War

• 1959 Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam
• 1972 U.S. intelligence agencies report 100,000 troops in the South

• World War I

• 1918 U.S. launches Saint-Mihiel offensive

• World War II

• 1942 The Laconia is sunk