Good Morning Deploreables

It is Thursday 9/21/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1780 Benedict Arnold commits treason

• American Revolution

• 1779 Spaniards capture Baton Rouge

• Automotive

• 2002 Nils Bohlin, inventor of the three-point seatbelt, dies at 82

• Civil War

• 1820 Union General John Reynolds is Born

• Cold War

• 1949 Mao Zedong outlines the new Chinese government

• Crime

• 1983 A 13-year-old’s dead body turns up

• Disaster

• 1999 Earthquake kills thousands in Taiwan

• General Interest

• 1792 Monarchy abolished in France
• 1938 The Great New England Hurricane
• 1989 Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman

• Hollywood

• 1985 Clooney makes Facts of Life debut

• Literary

• 1866 H.G. Wells is born

• Music

• 1968 Jeannie C. Riley is the first woman to top the Country and Pop charts simultaneously

• Old West

• 1904 The great Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies in Washington

• Presidential

• 1939 FDR urges repeal of Neutrality Act embargo provisions

• Sports

• 1981 Carlton gets 3,118th strikeout

• Vietnam War

• 1961 5th Special Forces Group is activated at Fort Bragg
• 1967 Thai troops arrive in Saigon

• World War I

• 1917 Central Powers respond to Papal Peace Note

• World War II

• 1942 The Superfortress takes flight