Good Morning Deploreables

It is Thursday 9/28/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1941 Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400

• American Revolution

• 1781 Battle of Yorktown begins

• Automotive

• 1938 Auto inventor Charles Duryea dies

• Civil War

• 1863 Union generals blamed for Chickamauga defeat

• Cold War

• 1959 Khrushchev and Eisenhower offer views on summit meeting

• Crime

• 1988 A cult leader kills one of his followers

• Disaster

• 1918 Flu epidemic hits Philadelphia

• General Interest

• 48 B.C. Pompey the Great assassinated
• 1066 William the Conqueror invades England
• 1542 Cabrillo encounters California
• 1989 Marcos dies in exile
• 1994 Estonia sinks

• Hollywood

• 1901 TV host Ed Sullivan born

• Literary

• 1634 John Milton’s drama, Comus, performed

• Music

• 1991 Miles Davis dies

• Old West

• 1542 Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay

• Presidential

• 1967 President Johnson honors American soldier

• Sports

• 1960 Ted Williams hits home run in last major league at-bat

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Battle for Thuong Duc begins
• 1972 Weekly casualty figures contain no U.S. fatalities

• World War I

• 1918 British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler

• World War II

• 1942 General Arnold fights for unique bombers