Good Morning Deploreables

It is Monday 10/23/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 2002 Hostage crisis in Moscow theater

• American Revolution

• 1777 British fleet suffers defeat at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania

• Automotive

• 1983 U.S. Embassy in Beirut hit by massive car bomb

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri

• Cold War

• 1956 Hungarian protest turns violent

• Crime

• 1998 An abortion-performing doctor is murdered

• Disaster

• 1989 Gas leak kills 23 at plastics factory

• General Interest

• 1855 Rival governments in bleeding Kansas
• 1983 Beirut barracks blown up
• 42 Brutus commits suicide

• Hollywood

• 1925 Johnny Carson is born

• Literary

• 1942 Michael Crichton is born

• Music

• 1976 Chicago has its first #1 hit with “If You Leave Me Now”

• Old West

• 1813 American fur traders turn over Astoria, Oregon, to the British

• Presidential

• 1890 President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska

• Sports

• 1993 Carter homers to win World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1965 1st Cavalry Division launches Operation Silver Bayonet
• 1972 U.S. negotiators ask for further talks in Paris

• World War II

• 1941 Soviets switch commanders in drive to halt Germans