Good Morning Deploreables

It is Thursday 10/5/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1957 Sputnik launched

• American Revolution

• 1777 Both sides battered at Germantown

• Automotive

• 1937 Blues singer Bessie Smith, killed in Mississippi car wreck, is buried

• Civil War

• 1861 Lincoln watches a balloon ascension

• Cold War

• 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

• Crime

• 1988 Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges
• 2011 Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA

• Disaster

• 1992 Plane crashes into apartment building

• General Interest

• 1777 The Battle of Germantown
• 1965 Pope visits U.S.
• 1993 White House siege ends in Moscow

• Hollywood

• 1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 debuts

• Literary

• 1941 Anne Rice is born

• Music

• 1970 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose

• Old West

• 1861 Frederic Remington is born in Canton, New York

• Presidential

• 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes is born
• 1927 Work begins on Mount Rushmore

• Sports

• 1955 So-called Brooklyn bums win their first World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Johnson orders the commencement of Oplan 34A raids
• 1966 Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War

• World War I

• 1918 Germany telegraphs President Wilson seeking armistice

• World War II

• 1943 Heinrich Himmler encourages his SS group leaders
• 1944 Ike warns of the risk of “shell shock”