Good Morning Deploreables

It is Thursday 10/12/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1492 Columbus reaches the New World

• American Revolution

• 1776 British troops head up East River

• Automotive

• 1940 Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck; brained by “Suitcase of Death”

• Civil War

• 1870 Robert E. Lee dies

• Cold War

• 1960 Nikita Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the United Nations

• Crime

• 1998 The victim of an anti-gay assault dies

• Disaster

• 1918 Fire rages in Minnesota

• General Interest

• 1810 The origin of Oktoberfest
• 1915 British nurse executed in WWI
• 1945 Conscientious objector wins Medal of Honor
• 1964 USSR leads the space race
• 2000 USS Cole attacked by terrorists
• 2002 Terrorists kill 202 in Bali

• Hollywood

• 2007 Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of An Inconvenient Truth

• Literary

• 1912 Actress, playwright, novelist Alice Childress is born

• Music

• 1997 John Denver dies in an aircraft accident

• Old West

• 1940 The Cowboy actor Tom Mix dies in an Arizona car accident

• Presidential

• 1786 Thomas Jefferson composes romantic letter

• Sports

• 1929 Athletics score 10 in eighth inning of championship game

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Dean Rusk criticizes Congress while fighting continues in South Vietnam
• 1970 Nixon announces another round of troop withdrawals
• 1972 Racial violence breaks out aboard U.S. Navy ships

• World War I

• 1915 British nurse Edith Cavell executed

• World War II

• 1946 Gen. Joseph Stilwell dies