Good Morning Deploreables

It is Monday 10/16/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1934 The Long March

• American Revolution

• 1773 Philadelphia Resolutions criticize Tea Act

• Automotive

• 1958 Chevrolet introduces the El Camino

• Civil War

• 1859 John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

• Cold War

• 1964 China joins A-bomb club

• Crime

• 1991 Twenty-three diners massacred at Texas restaurant

• Disaster

• 1996 Stampede kills 84 at World Cup match

• General Interest

• 1793 Marie-Antoinette is beheaded
• 1946 Nazi war criminals executed
• 1987 Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches

• Hollywood

• 1925 Angela Lansbury born

• Literary

• 1854 Oscar Wilde’s birthday

• Music

• 1976 “Disco Duck” hits the #1 spot on the U.S. pop chart

• Old West

• 1851 Psychopathic gunfighter “Wild Bill” Longley is born in Texas

• Presidential

• 1854 Lincoln speaks out against slavery

• Sports

• 1912 Fred Snodgrass drops ball and loses World Series
• 2011 IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon is killed in crash

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Bombing halt discussed
• 1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded Nobel Peace Prize

• World War I

• 1916 British soldier Henry Farr executed for cowardice

• World War II

• 1946 Alfred Rosenberg is executed