Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 9/13/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1814 Key pens Star-Spangled Banner

• American Revolution

• 1806 American sympathizer Charles James Fox dies in Britain

• Automotive

• 2004 Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars

• Civil War

• 1862 Union troops discover Rebels’ Antietam battle plan

• Cold War

• 1976 New book says war with Russia is greatest U.S. threat

• Crime

• 1971 Attica prison riot ends
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• Disaster

• 1989 Devastating storm heads toward Caribbean

• General Interest

• 1759 Britain victorious on the Plains of Abraham
• 1971 Massacre at Attica Prison
• 1993 Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
• 1998 George Wallace dies

• Hollywood

• 1990 Law & Order debuts

• Literary

• 1916 Children’s author Roald Dahl is born

• Music

• 1996 Tupac Shakur dies

• Old West

• 1847 General Winfield Scott storms the Chapultepec fortress

• Presidential

• 1980 President Carter attends Willie Nelson concert at White House

• Sports

• 1936 Bob Feller strikes out 17 at 17

• Vietnam War

• 1945 British troops arrive to disarm the Japanese
• 1964 Attempted coup against Khanh government fails
• 1968 Large operation begins in the DMZ

• World War I

• 1914 Irish nationalist seeks German support

• World War II

• 1940 Italy invades Egypt