Good Morning Deploreables

It is Tuesday 10/31/2017

Happy Halloween

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses

• American Revolution

• 1776 King speaks for first time since independence declared

• Automotive

• 1957 Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. opens in Hollywood

• Civil War

• 1861 Winfield Scott steps down

• Cold War

• 1956 British and French troops land in Suez Canal zone

• Crime

• 1984 The prime minister of India is assassinated

• Disaster

• 1961 Hurricane Hattie strikes Belize

• General Interest

• 1926 Houdini is dead
• 1961 Stalin’s body removed from Lenin’s tomb

• Hollywood

• 1993 River Phoenix dies

• Literary

• 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published

• Music

• 1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand, paving the way for the British Invasion

• Old West

• 1864 The U.S. Congress admits Nevada as the 36th state

• Presidential

• 2000 President Clinton stumps for his wife

• Sports

• 1950 Earl Lloyd becomes first black player in the NBA

• Vietnam War

• 1968 President Johnson announces bombing halt
• 1970 Thieu vows to never accept a coalition government

• World War I

• 1917 Third Battle of Gaza

• World War II

• 1887 Chiang Kai-Shek is born