Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 9/6/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1915 First tank produced

• American Revolution

• 1781 Arnold orders burning of New London

• Automotive

• 2007 Volkswagen moves to Virginia

• Civil War

• 1863 Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island, South Carolina

• Cold War

• 1976 Soviet pilot lands Russian MIG fighter plane in Japan

• Crime

• 2012 Former police sergeant Drew Peterson is convicted of killing his third wife

• Disaster

• 1943 Train derails on way to New York
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• General Interest

• 1522 Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates globe
• 1966 Architect of apartheid assassinated
• 1972 More Israeli hostages killed in Munich

• Hollywood

• 1997 Some 2.5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana’s funeral

• Literary

• 1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden and moves in with the Emersons

• Music

• 1997 Elton John performs a re-written “Candle in the Wind” at Princess Diana’s funeral

• Old West

• 1844 John C. Fremont reaches the Great Salt Lake

• Presidential

• 1901 President William McKinley is shot

• Sports

• 1995 Ripken breaks record for consecutive games played

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Ho Chi Minh to be succeeded by committee
• 1972 Thieu abolishes popular elections

• World War I

• 1914 First Battle of the Marne begins

• World War II

• 1944 Italian resistance fighters persevere