Tuesday, April 12th. Day 102 of 2022
It’s Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day ! Mmmm, Simple but Superb
Today is Be Kind to Lawyers Day. Stunned silence on that one
1861: Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by rebels. The acts starts the Civil War
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President
1954” Bill Haley and the Comets record “Rock Around Clock”
1955: Polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is proclaimed to be ‘safe and effective’ and is given full approval by the US Food and Drug Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
1961: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit
1999: President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit
2020: Huge storm system produces more than 40 tornadoes in the US from Texas to South Carolina killing 32 people across six states
In the News: Alexander County Board of Education meets today…Fatal motorcycle crash in Wilkes County…Taylorsville woman facing felony drug charges…Taylorsville Police charge man with resisting arrest…Man arrested on Iredell County warrants…Man on the lam since 2020 arrested by Alexander County Deputies
Weather: Sunshine mixed with a few clouds. High around 78
Sports: Lady Cougar Softball beats old conference foe…Law tosses no-hitter for JV Cougars…Big game today for Cougar Baseball…Braves walloped by Washington…Panther receiver arrested…Canes skate in the Big Apple tonight
Happy Birthday: Herbie Hancock, Ed O’Neill, David Letterman, Scott Turow, Andy Garcia, Vince Gill, Shannen Doherty, Claire Danes
It’s acceptable to curse on the job, it might help https://www.wsj.com/articles/work-makes-us-want-to-swear-remote-office-hybrid-work-11649430972
Florida woman charged with putting 4-year old in clothes dryer https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/florida-woman-busted-for-putting-boy-in-laundry-dryer-and-starting-the-machine/
Where else but in the San Francisco would a driverless car get pulled by the cops ? https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awmed/cop-pulls-over-driverless-car-chaos-does-not-ensue
Quote of the Day: “The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”…Henry Clay (Born this day in 1777)