Good Morning Deploreables

It is Friday 10/27/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1904 New York City subway opens

• American Revolution

• 1775 King George III speaks to Parliament of American rebellion

• Automotive

• 2006 Chick-fil-A founder takes last Ford Taurus

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Hatcher’s Run (Burgess Mill)

• Cold War

• 1962 The United States and Soviet Union step back from brink of nuclear war

• Crime

• 1940 Mafia boss John Gotti is born

• Disaster

• 1995 Avalanche buries homes in Iceland

• General Interest

• 1659 Quakers executed for religious beliefs
• 1858 Teddy Roosevelt born
• 1914 Dylan Thomas born
• 1994 U.S. prison population exceeds one million

• Hollywood

• 1924 Actress Ruby Dee born

• Literary

• 1932 Sylvia Plath is born

• Music

• 1970 Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber release Jesus Christ Superstar

• Old West

• 1873 Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design

• Presidential

• 1858 Theodore Roosevelt is born

• Sports

• 2004 Red Sox win first championship since 1918

• Vietnam War

• 1966 Ambassador Harriman sent to explain Manila offer
• 1971 Cambodian troops battle Communists north of Phnom Penh

• World War I

• 1918 German general Erich Ludendorff resigns

• World War II

• 1940 De Gaulle sets up the Empire Defense Council