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Richard C Gilbert’s Wednesday Blog

October 4, 2023 By Richard C. Gilbert

Wednesday, October 4th. Day 277 of 2023

Happy Taco Day ! National Vodka Day and Golf Lovers Day too

1535: The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed

1895: Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship

1933: “Esquire” magazine was published for the first time

1957: “Leave it to Beaver” debuted on CBS

1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space

1997: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1997_Loomis_Fargo_robbery

2001: Washington’s Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001

2006: WikiLeaks is launched

In the News: Groundbreaking held Tuesday for new Sugar Loaf Elementary Gym…School Board hosts Community “Town Hall”…Hickory man charged with child-sex exploitation…Shooting under investigation in North Wilkesboro…FEMA to conduct Nationwide Alert Test this afternoon

Weather: Another Sunny Day, High around 80

Sports: Tanner Moore is the Taylorsville Savings Bank-B86 Cougar of the Week…Panthers are in a crossroads, do they start trading assets ?…Baseball Playoffs take center stage on Tuesday, 4 more games today

Happy Birthday: Tony La Russa, Susan Sarandon, Armand Assante, Jon Secada, Alicia Silverstone

America has a chronic illness crisis https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/america-s-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-is-killing-us-too-soon/ar-AA1hCsaz#image=1

Some fodder for those who live in paranoia https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-fema-test-graphene-oxide-covid-vaccine-517946413392

Word of the day: minutia [mi-noo-shuh] Precise details, small or trifling matters. First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin. The Board of Directors spent hours dealing with the minutia of the proposal.

Quote of the Day: “Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even”…Will Rogers

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