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Richard C Gilbert’s Monday Blog

February 28, 2022 By Richard C. Gilbert

Monday, February 28th. Day 59 of 2022

It’s Tooth Fairy Day ! How much is a tooth bringing from the Tooth Fairy these days ?

1854: The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin

1885: AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated

1940: The first televised basketball game is shown. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square Garden in New York

1953: In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

1993: Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, Texas. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed

2001: The Northwest region of the U.S., including the state of Washington, was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale

2013: Benedict XVI resigned as pope. He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to resign voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294

In the News: No candidates filed for office on Friday, Deadline is Friday at noon…Man shot by deputies in Wilkes County…Four year-old from Hickory suffers gunshot wound…Taylorsville man facing lost list of charges…

Weather: Sunshine with a high near 60

Sports: Lady Cougars fall in Round III Saturday night…Hornets lose again…Canes win again…Charlotte’s new Soccer team loses first match…Kyle Larson wins in California…Deadline day to get the Baseball Labor Issues settled

Happy Birthday: Bernadette Peters, Gilbert Gottfried, John Turturro, Cindy Wilson, Robert Sean Leonard, Eric Lindros, Luka Dončić

Big Meth shipment stopped at Southern Border https://apnews.com/article/oddities-san-diego-smuggling-us-customs-and-border-protection-e6175a47a79618b66cd036bf5a37d8e9

Shipwreck washes ashore off coast of NC https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/02/25/North-Carolina-shipwreck-washes-up-Bald-Head-Island/6231645822220/

Quote of the Day: “If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot”…Dean Smith (Born this day in 1931)

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