Good Morning Deploreables

It is Wednesday 10/11/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 2002 Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize

• American Revolution

• 1776 Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island

• Automotive

• 2008 Blind driver breaks land-speed record

• Civil War

• 1862 Stuart hits Pennsylvania

• Cold War

• 1986 Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik

• Crime

• 1923 A mail car explodes in a train robbery

• Disaster

• 1793 Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia

• General Interest

• 1776 Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Valcour Island
• 1899 Boer War begins in South Africa
• 1962 Pope opens Vatican II
• 1968 Apollo 7 launched

• Hollywood

• 1975 Saturday Night Live debuts

• Literary

• 1925 Elmore Leonard is born

• Music

• 1975 Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with “Born to Run”

• Old West

• 1809 Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee

• Presidential

• 1975 Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham

• Sports

• 2003 Martinez-Zimmer scuffle interrupts ALCS

• Vietnam War

• 1954 Viet Minh take control in the north
• 1961 Kennedy ponders the Vietnam situation

• World War I

• 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I

• World War II

• 1942 United States defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance