Good Morning Deploreables

It is Saturday 10/7/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor

• American Revolution

• 1780 Patriots prevail in Carolinas

• Automotive

• 1960 CBS broadcasts the premiere episode of “Route 66″

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson’s Farm)

• Cold War

• 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy

• Crime

• 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship

• Disaster

• 1871 Massive fire burns in Wisconsin

• General Interest

• 1780 Battle of King’s Mountain
• 1913 Moving Assembly Line at Ford
• 1949 East Germany created
• 2001 U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins

• Hollywood

• 1983 Connery plays Bond in Never Say Never Again

• Literary

• 1955 Ginsberg reads “Howl” for the first time

• Music

• 1975 A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order

• Old West

• 1816 First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans

• Presidential

• 2001 President Bush announces military action in Afghanistan

• Sports

• 1984 Walter Payton sets a record

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort
• 1970 Nixon announces a new peace proposal

• World War I

• 1914 Antwerp under siege

• World War II

• 1940 German troops enter Romania
• 1943 Japanese execute nearly 100 American prisoners on Wake Island