Richard C Gilbert’s Friday Blog

Friday, September 1st. Day 244 of 2023

It’s Lazy Mom’s Day. Come one everybody, give them the day off

1878: Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company

1905: Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. I cheated to spell Saskatchewan

1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II

1952: The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published

1985: The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast

1995: The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was held in Cleveland

1998: J.K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was released in the U.S. This was the first book in the Harry Potter series

in the News: Michael Millsaps takes over as Interim Taylorsville chief of Police today…Job Fair coming to Taylorsville…Two-year old shot and killed in Iredell County…Taylorsville woman jailed…25 suspects arrested in Wilkes County Drug Sting…Newton man facing charges in Florida…Philadelphia woman nabbed after vehicle chase in Maiden

Weather: Perfect ! Sunny and 80 Today

Sports: Cougar Soccer is 5-1 after Thursday win…AC JV Football stays perfect…Coach Carter says don’t sleep on North Iredell tonight…Wolfpack and Deacs open season with wins Thursday night…What a weekend of College Football…Ronald Acuna has a full day…NASCAR Post Season begins in Darlington Sunday night

Happy Birthday: Alan Dershowitz, Lily Tomlin, Archie Bell, Barry Gibb, Phil McGraw, Gloria Estefan, Kenny Mayne, Tim Hardaway

WBTV’s Steve Crump loses battle with cancer. He was a class act https://www.wbtv.com/2023/08/31/steve-crump-beloved-wbtv-reporter-nearly-40-years-dies-following-cancer-battle/

To my friend Douglas Bowman, Thank You ! Doug retired on Friday as the Taylorsville Chief of Police. One good dude leads to another. Good Luck to new interim Chief Michael Millsaps !

Word of the Day: egregious [ ih-gree-juhs ] To be extraordinary in some bad way. Egregious comes from the Latin word ēgregius, which means “preeminent, outstanding.” Sentence: The defendant’s egregious behavior in the courtroom shocked everyone present.

Quote of the Day: “Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one? … Rocky Marciano (Born this day in 1923)