Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 10/10/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking ends

• American Revolution

• 1775 Howe named commander in chief of British army

• Automotive

• 1987 Whitesnake’s iconic video features Jaguars

• Civil War

• 1862 John Bankhead Magruder sent to Texas

• Cold War

• 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to African diplomat

• Crime

• 1991 A former postal worker commits mass murder

• Disaster

• 1780 Great Hurricane ravages West Indies

• General Interest

• 1845 Birth of the U.S. Naval Academy
• 1970 October Crisis in Canada
• 1973 Vice President Agnew resigns
• 732 Battle of Tours

• Hollywood

• 2004 Superman Christopher Reeve dies at age 52

• Literary

• 1881 Darwin publishes work on mold and worms

• Music

• 1935 Porgy and Bess, the first great American opera, premieres on Broadway

• Old West

• 1877 Custer’s funeral is held at West Point

• Presidential

• 1951 Truman signs Mutual Security Act

• Sports

• 1957 Braves beat the Yanks to win World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1965 1st Cavalry Division commences operations
• 1969 U.S. Navy transfers vessels to South Vietnamese

• World War I

• 1916 Eighth Battle of the Isonzo

• World War II

• 1944 Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz