Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 9/26/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1960 First Kennedy-Nixon debate

• American Revolution

• 1776 Congress elects agents to negotiate treaty with France

• Automotive

• 1928 First day of work at the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation

• Civil War

• 1864 Rebels begin attack against Fort Davidson, Missouri

• Cold War

• 1989 Anti-censorship law approved by Soviet legislature

• Crime

• 2007 Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case

• Disaster

• 2002 Ferry sinks off Gambian coast

• General Interest

• 1580 Drake circumnavigates the globe
• 1957 Bernstein’s West Side Story opens
• 1996 Shannon Lucid returns to Earth

• Hollywood

• 1969 The Brady Bunch premieres
• 2008 Screen legend Paul Newman dies

• Literary

• 1888 T.S. Eliot is born

• Music

• 1957 West Side Story premieres on Broadway

• Old West

• 1820 The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri

• Presidential

• 1960 Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate

• Sports

• 1971 Four 20-game winners

• Vietnam War

• 1945 First American soldier killed in Vietnam
• 1969 Nixon responds to critics

• World War I

• 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive opens

• World War II

• 1944 Allies slaughtered by Germans in Arnhem