Good Morning Deploreables

It is Friday 10/13/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1792 White House cornerstone laid

• American Revolution

• 1775 Continental Congress authorizes first naval force

• Automotive

• 1953 World’s first traveling art museum opens in Virginia

• Civil War

• 1863 Ohio voters reject Vallandigham

• Cold War

• 1957 Popular sci-fi film reflects America’s ambivalence about nuclear weapons

• Crime

• 1999 Grand jury dismissed in JonBenet Ramsey murder case

• Disaster

• 2010 Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground

• General Interest

• 1775 Continental Navy established
• 1812 Sir Isaac Brock saves Canada
• 1843 B’nai B’rith founded
• 1977 Palestinians hijack German airliner

• Hollywood

• 1950 Jimmy Stewart stars in Harvey

• Literary

• 1943 Poet Robert Lowell sentenced to prison

• Music

• 1975 Singer Charlie Rich protests John Denver’s big win at the CMA Awards

• Old West

• 1845 Texans ratify a state constitution and approve annexation

• Presidential

• 1792 White House cornerstone is laid

• Sports

• 1967 American Basketball Association debuts

• Vietnam War

• 1966 McNamara claims that war is progressing satisfactorily
• 1970 Sir Robert Thompson advises President Nixon

• World War I

• 1915 Poet Charles Sorley killed at Loos

• World War II

• 1943 Italy declares war on Germany