Good Morning Deploreables

It is Saturday 10/21/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1959 Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City

• American Revolution

• 1779 Henry Laurens named minister to Holland

• Automotive

• 1929 Henry Ford dedicates the Thomas Edison Institute

• Civil War

• 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff

• Cold War

• 1967 Thousands protest the war in Vietnam

• Crime

• 1910 A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building
• 2014 Olympian Oscar Pistorius gets 5 years in prison for girlfriend’s death

• Disaster

• 1966 Mudslide buries school in Wales

• General Interest

• 1797 USS Constitution launched
• 1805 Battle of Trafalgar
• 1959 Von Braun moves to NASA

• Hollywood

• 1988 Mystic Pizza, with Julia Roberts, opens

• Literary

• 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born

• Music

• 1917 Dizzy Gillespie is born

• Old West

• 1867 Plains Indians sign key provisions of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in Kansas

• Presidential

• 1921 Harding publicly condemns lynching

• Sports

• 1975 Fisk homers off foul pole

• Vietnam War

• 1967 100,000 people march on the Pentagon

• World War I

• 1918 Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare

• World War II

• 1941 Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia