Monday, September 25. Day 268 of 2023
Happy Daughter Day ! Hug ’em if you got them
It’s Pharmacists Day and Quesadilla Day too
1493: Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere
1513: The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
1789: The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights
1957: Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs
1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John
1981: Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice of the Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by President Reagan
2001: Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards
2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault
In the News: Another motorcycle fatality in Catawba County…Alexander County Board of Education schedules Town Hall Meeting…Taylorsville man arrested twice over the weekend…Alexander County man arrested by Hickory Police…Taylorsville woman jailed for contempt of court…Statesville man arrested for Troutman bank heist…Newton man charged with child-sex crimes
Weather: Some sun mixed with Clouds. High near 80
Sports: It’s Homecoming Week for Cougar Football…Panthers lose again…Fish put 70 on scoreboard…Cowboy fans, Shut Up !…Tar Heels, Wolfpack, Blue Devils and Lenoir-Rhyne all get wins…Baseball enters final week of regular season
Happy Birthday: Hubie Brown, Robert Gates, Michael Douglas, Cheryl Tiegs, Bob McAdoo, Michael Madsen, Heather Locklear, Aida Turturro, Scottie Pippen, Will Smith, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Usher gets the Super Bowl halftime show https://apnews.com/article/2024-super-bowl-halftime-show-usher-05a21fe7663feff1368bba8e8ba7c47b
What a terrible story https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/us/florida-alligator-killed-woman-in-mouth/index.html
Word of the Day: modicum [mod-i-kuhm] A moderate or small amount. From Latin meaning moderate. Sentence: The team was disappointed when their efforts resulted in only a modicum of progress
Quote of the Day: “The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers.”… Barbara Walters (Born this day in 1929)