Good Morning Deploreables

It is Friday 10/20/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1947 Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood

• American Revolution

• 1774 Congress creates the Continental Association

• Automotive

• 1965 Last Volvo PV rolls off the assembly line

• Civil War

• 1819 Union General Daniel Sickles is born

• Cold War

• 1947 The Red Scare comes to Hollywood

• Crime

• 1990 2 Live Crew members are acquitted of obscenity charges

• Disaster

• 1944 Natural gas explosions rock Cleveland

• General Interest

• 1827 Battle of Navarino
• 1935 Mao’s Long March concludes
• 1944 MacArthur returns
• 1973 Sydney Opera House opens
• 2011 Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is Killed

• Hollywood

• 1994 Burt Lancaster dies

• Literary

• 1853 French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born

• Music

• 1977 Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash

• Old West

• 1803 U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

• Presidential

• 1962 Kennedy press secretary misleads press

• Sports

• 1968 Fosbury flops to an Olympic record

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Relations between South Vietnam, the United States, and Cambodia deteriorate
• 1973 Watergate special prosecutor dismissed

• World War I

• 1918 Turks send British officer to negotiate armistice terms

• World War II

• 1944 U.S. forces land at Leyte Island in the Philippines