Good Morning Deploreables

It is Saturday 10/14/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1947 Yeager breaks sound barrier

• American Revolution

• 1780 Patriots sting Loyalists at Shallow Ford, North Carolina

• Automotive

• 1857 Elwood Haynes, “Grandsire of Gasoline Cars,” is born

• Civil War

• 1863 Battle of Bristoe Station

• Cold War

• 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins

• Crime

• 1975 Trial begins in Amityville murders

• Disaster

• 1913 Coal miners die in Wales

• General Interest

• 1066 The Battle of Hastings
• 1912 Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee
• 1964 King wins Nobel Peace Prize
• 2012 Skydiver breaks sound barrier with 24-mile jump

• Hollywood

• 1994 Pulp Fiction debuts

• Literary

• 1822 Victor Hugo marries Adele Foucher

• Music

• 1957 “Wake Up Little Susie” becomes the Everly Brothers’ first #1 hit

• Old West

• 1939 Ralph Lauren, designer of popular western-style clothing, is born in New York

• Presidential

• 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower is born

• Sports

• 2003 Steve Bartman catches ball

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
• 1968 U.S. servicemen sent to Vietnam for second tours

• World War I

• 1918 Adolf Hitler wounded in British gas attack

• World War II

• 1944 “The Desert Fox” commits suicide