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Richard C Gilbert’s Monday Blog

April 17, 2023 By Richard C. Gilbert

Monday, April 17th. Day 107 of 2023

Happy Ford Mustang Day !

Happy Kickball Day. It was fun during recess in elementary school

1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church

1865: Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination

1947: Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers got his first Major League hit, a bunt single

1964: The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan

1969: Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy

1970: Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank

1993: Two Los Angeles police officers convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King’s civil rights and sentenced to prison, while two others are acquitted

2021: Global COVID-19 death toll passes three million

In the News: Three injured in overnight crash in Northern Alexander County…Skateboarder killed in Statesville…Man nabbed after chase in Alexander County…Hickory man wanted in Alexander County captured and jailed…Taylorsville man arrested over weekend…Alexander County couple facing Iredell County drug charges

Weather: Sunny and Breezy, not quite as warm

Sports: ACHS Athletics has big week coming up…Canes bein playoffs tonight…NBA Playoffs underway…Braves have won 6 in a row…Ritzpatrick win in playoff of PGA Tour

Happy Birthday: Olivia Hussey, Sean Bean, Boomer Esiason, Jennifer Garner, Victoria Beckham

An Asheville man and a bear share a scare https://wlos.com/news/local/man-black-bear-scare-startle-asheville-ring-camera-video-carport-chair

Bud Light has lost a lot of customers, they’re trying to win them back https://www.outkick.com/anheuser-busch-promoted-twitter-ad-budweiser-dylan-mulvaney-backlash/

Word of the Day: jacal [ huh-kahl ] A hut with a thatched roof and walls consisting of thin stakes driven into the ground. Jacal is borrowed from Spanish

Quote of the Day: “There’s nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head”… Thornton Wilder (Born this day in 1897)

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