Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 10/3/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1985 Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS

• American Revolution

• 1780 Benedict accomplice hanged

• Automotive

• 1948 Checkered flag waves at first postwar U.S. road race in Watkins Glen, New York

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Saltville

• Cold War

• 1958 The Cold War comes to Africa, as Guinea gains its independence

• Crime

• 2006 Gunman kills five students at Amish school

• Disaster

• 1963 Hurricane devastates Haiti

• General Interest

• 1780 British spy executed in Arnold affair
• 1836 Darwin returns to England
• 1944 Warsaw Uprising ends
• 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in

• Hollywood

• 1985 Rock Hudson dies of AIDS

• Literary

• 1879 Wallace Stevens is born

• Music

• 1971 Rod Stewart earns his first #1 hit with “Maggie May”

• Old West

• 1835 First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales

• Presidential

• 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke

• Sports

• 1968 Gibson strikes out 17 in World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1966 Soviets report that Russian military personnel have come under fire
• 1967 Aerial offensive against North Vietnam continues

• World War I

• 1919 U.S President Woodrow Wilson suffers massive stroke

• World War II

• 1941 Operation Typhoon is launched