Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 10/24/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1901 First barrel ride down Niagara Falls

• American Revolution

• 1775 British naval fleet attacks Norfolk, Virginia

• Automotive

• 1931 George Washington Bridge is dedicated

• Civil War

• 1862 Rosecrans replaces Buell

• Cold War

• 1970 Leftist Salvador Allende elected president of Chile

• Crime

• 1997 Marv Albert faces sentencing in sexual assault case

• Disaster

• 1947 Commuter trains collide in England

• General Interest

• 1648 Thirty Years War ends
• 1945 U.N. formally established
• 1969 Burton buys Liz a diamond
• 2003 The Concorde makes its final flight

• Hollywood

• 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid opens

• Literary

• 1958 Raymond Chandler starts his last novel

• Music

• 1962 James Brown records breakthrough Live at the Apollo album

• Old West

• 1861 Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line

• Presidential

• 1951 Truman declares war with Germany officially over

• Sports

• 1992 Toronto Blue Jays finally win a World Series for Canada

• Vietnam War

• 1954 U.S. president pledges support to South Vietnam
• 1966 Manila Conference attendees issue “Declaration of Peace”

• World War I

• 1917 Battle of Caporetto
• 1921 Unknown Soldier is selected

• World War II

• 1945 The United Nations is born