Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 10/17/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1931 Capone goes to prison

• American Revolution

• 1777 Americans win more than a battle at Saratoga

• Automotive

• 1973 OPEC states declare oil embargo

• Civil War

• 1864 Longstreet returns to command

• Cold War

• 1986 U.S. aid to Contras signed into law

• Crime

• 1906 A shoemaker leads German soldiers in a robbery

• Disaster

• 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake strikes near San Francisco

• General Interest

• 1777 Patriot victory at Saratoga
• 1961 Algerians massacred in Paris
• 1973 OPEC enacts oil embargo
• 1989 Earthquake rocks San Francisco

• Hollywood

• 1974 Benji debuts

• Literary

• 1903 Nathanael West is born

• Music

• 1960 R&B legends the Drifters earn a #1 pop hit with "Save the Last Dance For Me”

• Old West

• 1835 The first resolution formally creating the Texas Rangers is approved

• Presidential

• 1974 Ford explains his pardon of Nixon to Congress

• Sports

• 1968 Olympic protestors stripped of their medals

• Vietnam War

• 1966 President Johnson goes to Asia

• World War I

• 1912 Serbia and Greece declare war on Ottoman Empire in First Balkan War

• World War II

• 1941 Konoye government falls