Thursday, September 1st. Day 244 f 2022
It’s Write a Letter Day. When’s the last time you actually wrote and mailed a personal letter ? No, email don’t count
1878: Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company
1905: Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. I cheated to spell Saskatchewan
1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II
1952: The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published
1985: The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast
1995: The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was held in Cleveland
1998: J.K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was released in the U.S. This was the first book in the Harry Potter series
In the News: Alexander County records a COVID-19 associated death…Unemployment rates drop in all 100 NC Counties…Taylorsville Police continue to investigate Monday shooting incident…South Carolina man busted after chase in Iredell County…Drug bust this morning in Catawba County
Weather: Lots of Sunshine today, High around 86
Sports: ACHS Volleyball gets win…Carter says despite win, the Cougars were not very good last Friday…Wake opens season tonight…Panther sign kicker…Braves win, so do Mets…Yankees division lead down to 6
Happy Birthday: Alan Dershowitz, Lily Tomlin, Archie Bell, Barry Gibb, Phil McGraw, Gloria Estefan, Kenny Mayne, Tim Hardaway
Another struggling retailer is on life support https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/business/bed-bath-and-beyond-turnaround-plan/index.html
COVID taking toll on life expectancy in the United States https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/health/us-life-expectancy-drops-again-2021/index.html
The latest bid on my green sneakers is $175. Gotta have more than that !
Quote of the Day: “I write to escape; to escape poverty”…Edgar Rice Burroughs (Born this day in 1875)