Monday, November 7th. Day 311 of 2022
It’s Fill Your Staplers Day. Am I the only one that ever puts staples in the darned stapler ?
1874: The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly
1893: The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote
1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first to win a fourth term as president
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1973: New Jersey became the first state to permit girls to play on Little League Baseball teams
1994: WXYC , the University of North Carolina’s campus Radio Station, became the first station to stream on the internet
2020: Joe Biden declared the winner of the Presidential race, four days after the US election
In the News: Early Voting Ends in Alexander County, 40 percent have already cast a ballot…10 Polling Places will be open Tuesday…Fatal crash Friday in Conover…Vehicle strikes building Sunday north of Taylorsville…Taylorsville man facing charges in Lincoln County…Fatal shooting Saturday in Hickory
Weather: Clouds and Fog to start but Sunny this afternoon and warm with high in upper 70’s
Sports: No shockers in NC High School Football Playoffs Friday…College Football has epic weekend…Panthers look awful again the Bengals…Astros win World Series…Lagano takes NASCAR Race and Title
Happy Birthday: Jim Kaat, Johnny Rivers, Joni Mitchell, Judy Tenuta, David Petraeus, Lindsay Czarniak
Powerball up to nearly $2 billion this evening https://apnews.com/article/lotteries-iowa-80cd745d5a898e71ff0199558f65229b
Astro Fan wins $75 Million in World Series https://nypost.com/2022/11/06/mattress-mack-wins-75-million-bet-with-astros-world-series-victory/
To those Tennessee fans, please take off that hideous Orange stuff you wear. Thanks for your cooperation !
Quote of the Day: “You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole”…Billy Graham (Born this day in 1918)