Tuesday, April 22nd. Day 112 of 2025
It’s Baseball Day ! The game was my first love
It’s Earth Day. Let’s all be more kind to the Rock we live on
Happy Beagle Day and Jelly Bean Day ! Two things that bring a smile
1864: The US mints a two-cent coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States)
1903: NY Highlanders , now the Yankees play their first MLB game. They lose to Washington 3-1
1966: The Troggs release “Wild Thing”
1972: Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke (born in Charlotte) ride a vehicle on the Moon
1977: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic
2000: In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami
2016: The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming
In the News: Wilkes County man charged with murder…Stony Point woman back behind bars…Iredell Deputies uncover 3 pounds of meth and make 2 arrests…The man who stole the “Concrete Chicken” is serving jail time…
Weather: Clouds take over. Might be a shower today. High around 75
Sports: Cougar Baseball wins on Monday to advance in winner’s bracket of Easter Holiday Event…AC Softball stays top latest poll…Canes go for a 2-0 lead tonight…Flagg makes it official…Another UNC Basketball player enters the portal…Braves win 4th straight…NFL Draft getting near
Happy Birthday: Jack Nicholson, Mel Carter, Peter Frampton, Ryan Stiles, Terry Francona, Byron Allen, Marshawn Lynch
Roboto ! https://apnews.com/article/china-robot-half-marathon-153c6823bd628625106ed26267874d21
Word of the Day: opera [ op-er-uh ] A drama told through or set to music. Borrowed from Italian, “work, labor, artistic production, drama set to music. “The opera was a new experience”
Quote of the Day: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”… J. Robert Oppenheimer (Born this day in 1904)