Friday, August 11th. Day 223 of 2023
It’s Play in the Sand Day. If you have a Sandbox, I’ll bring the pail and shovel ?
Happy Presidential Joke Day ! Wow, the material is endless nowadays
1909: The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
1929: Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
1934: Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time
1967: The Alexander County Courthouse is destroyed in a pre-dawn fire. No injures but the structure was leveled. That’s how we ended up with the current bomb-shelter we have now
1984: President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing , the President said of the Soviet Union, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
1992: In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States
2002: US Airways announced they were filing for bankruptcy
In the News: Taylorsville man facing 50 felony charges involving child pornography…Hickory Police Charge Taylorsville man…Taylorsville Police arrest Statesville man on felony larceny and felony drug charges…Man and woman shot to death in Wilkes County…Man killed in Hickory on Wednesday
Weather: Clouds more often than not today. Pretty stuffy weekend expected
David McConnell
Happy Birthday: Eric Carmen, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Fredrick Smith, Joe Jackson, Chris Kelly, Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth
Cuban economy so bad that some are clamoring for Fidel to return https://news.yahoo.com/cuba-economic-crisis-worse-fall-194255002.html
Glad I wasn’t on that flight https://apnews.com/article/ntsb-investigation-united-airlines-flight-hawaii-7744614cd1202c938b550ea2cea4bafb
Word of the Day: feted [ fet-id, fee-tid ] Having an offensive odor; stinking. malodorous, smelly, putrid
Quote of the Day: “The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history” Carl T Rowan (Born this day in 1925)