Wednesday, September 17th. Day 260 of 2025
It’s Museum Day
1787: Happy Constitution Day! The Constitution was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention
1911: The first transcontinental airplane flight started. It took C.P. Rogers 82 hours to fly from New York City to Pasadena, CA
1930: Construction on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, began in Black Canyon, near Las Vegas
1976: “M*A*S*H” premiered on CBS
1978: The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt
1983: Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America
2001: The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression
News: Taylorsville man jailed after alleged assault…Alexander County woman busted on felony drug counts…Hiddenite man arrested for felony larceny by employee…Guilty verdicts returned in Caldwell County murder case…Wilkes County Deputies locate missing juvenile and charge suspect with rape
Weather: Sunshine and 82
Sports: Lady Cougar Tennis blanks Freedom…AC Soccer battles to a draw…Howell named Taylorsville Savings Bank-B86 Cougar of the Week…Former Watauga standout tabbed as ACC defensive Lineman of the Week…NC’s own Cal Raleigh clouts a pair of homers as Seattle wins 10th straight…Blue Jays win 6th in a row…Braves sweep double dip…More Masters coverage coming next Spring
Happy Birthday: David Souter, Phil Jackson, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Rudner, Rasheed Wallace, Jimmie Johnson, Alex Ovechkin, Patrick Mahomes, Auston Mathews
Redford was an icon https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/robert-redford-magnetic-hollywood-icon-sundance-founder-dies-89-rcna42442
I’m not buying the trend but, landlines making a comeback ? https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/landlines-making-comeback-theyre-helping-210729704.html
Word of the Day: mazurka [muh-zur-kuh ] A Polish dance. The music for such a dance. From Polish. “The Polish dance group delighted the crowd with a lively and spirited mazurka”
Quote of the Day: “To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure”… Hank Williams (Born this day in 1923)