Good Morning Deploreables

It is Thursday 11/2/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

• 1947 Spruce Goose flies

• American Revolution

• 1777 John Paul Jones sets sail

• Automotive

• 1902 First four-cylinder, gas-powered Locomobile hits the road

• Civil War

• 1861 Fremont removed from Western Department

• Cold War

• 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam

• Crime

• 1989 A nurse’s aide gets life imprisonment

• Disaster

• 1982 Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan

• General Interest

• 1917 Britain supports creation of Jewish homeland
• 1948 Truman defeats Dewey
• 1983 MLK federal holiday declared

• Hollywood

• 1966 Friends star David Schwimmer born

• Literary

• 1960 Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial ends

• Music

• 1985 Miami Vice soundtrack begins an 11-week run at #1

• Old West

• 1912 XIT Ranch sells its last head of cattle

• Presidential

• 1795 James Polk is born
• 1865 Warren G. Harding is born

• Sports

• 1986 Grete Waitz wins her eighth NYC marathon

• Vietnam War

• 1963 Diem murdered during coup
• 1967 Johnson meets with “the Wise Men”

• World War I

• 1917 The Balfour Declaration

• World War II

• 1942 British launch Operation Supercharge