Good Morning Deplorables
It is Saturday 7/22/2017
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Lead Story
- 2003 Jessica Lynch gets hero’s welcome
American Revolution
- 1779 Battle of Minisink Ford, New York
Automotive
- 2002 California governor signs new auto emissions legislation
Civil War
- 1864 Battle of Atlanta continues
Cold War
- 1987 Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles
Crime
- 1923 Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution
- 1991 Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught
Disaster
- 1993 Kaskaskia is inundated by flood of ’93
General Interest
- 1916 The Preparedness Day bombing
- 1933 Wiley Post flies solo around the world
- 1934 Dillinger gunned down
- 2003 Qusay and Uday Hussein killed
Hollywood
- 2005 March of the Penguins debuts
Literary
- 1598 The Merchant of Venice is entered on the Stationers’ Register
Music
- 1977 Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True, is released
Old West
- 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean
Presidential
- 1862 Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation
Sports
- 1990 Greg LeMond wins second Tour De France
Vietnam War
- 1967 Taylor and Clifford begin tour of the Pacific region
- 1968 North Vietnamese condemn Honolulu Conference
World War I
- 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco
World War II
- 1942 Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin