Good Morning Deploreables

It is Wednesday 10/18/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1867 U.S. takes possession of Alaska

• American Revolution

• 1767 Mason and Dixon draw a line

• Automotive

• 1933 R. Buckminster Fuller tries to patent his Dymaxion Car

• Civil War

• 1863 General Sickles visits his troops

• Cold War

• 1989 East Germany and Hungary move toward democracy

• Crime

• 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrested for drug possession

• Disaster

• 1998 Pipeline explosions kills 700 in Nigeria

• General Interest

• 1469 Ferdinand and Isabella marry
• 1860 Peking’s Summer Palace destroyed
• 1898 U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico
• 1931 Edison dies

• Hollywood

• 1988 Roseanne debuts

• Literary

• 1951 Terry McMillan is born

• Music

• 1974 Soul singer Al Green is attacked in his own bathtub

• Old West

• 1867 The United States formally takes possession of Alaska from Russia

• Presidential

• 1962 JFK records his impressions of secret meetings

• Sports

• 1977 Mr. October hits three homers in three swings

• Vietnam War

• 1955 Emperor Bao Dai attempts to dismiss Diem
• 1968 Stock market soars with rumors of bombing halt in Vietnam

• World War I

• 1915 Third Battle of the Isonzo

• World War II

• 1942 Vice Admiral Halsey named new commander of the South Pacific