Wednesday, June 12th. Day 164 of 2024
It’s Red Rose Day
It’s Jerky Day. I just don’t think taking all the juices out of a premium cut of meat makes sense
1839: According to legend, Abner Doubleday created the rules of Baseball on this day
1935: Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours with 150,000 words
1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York
1987: President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IguMXrgfrg8
1991: The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship beating Los Angeles 4 games to 1
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered in Los Angeles. You’re right, OJ did it !
2009: The switch from analog TV to digital was completed
2016: The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history up to that time occurred when Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and wounding more than 50
2018: President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore
In the News: Alexander Early College students will begin working with AI this Fall…New High School coming to Iredell County…Man charged with murder in Newton make court appearance…Catawba County man gets minimum 152-year prison term…Taylorsville man nabbed on felony probation charge…
Weather: Sunny and Warmer. High around 85
Sports: Turf Project expected to begin today at Cougar Stadium…Panthers begin Minicamp…Boston up 2-0 at Dallas tonight in NBA Final…Stanly Cup Finals on hold till Tuesday…Braves swoon worsens…Final practice today before the US Open tees-off at Pinehurst on Thursday
Happy Birthday: Junior Brown, Timothy Busfield, Meredith Brooks, Ryan Klesko, Hideki Matsui, Antwan Jamison, Blake Ross
Rory and wife has kissed and made-up https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rory-mcilroys-divorce-from-wife-erica-stoll-reportedly-called-off-ahead-of-us-open-231310115.html
Word of the Day: abrogate [ ab-ruh-geyt ] To abolish, to end. To put asside, to dismiss. From the Latin abrogātus meaning “repealed” Sentence: The committee tried to abrogate its responsibility by postponing the decision until after the holidays.
Quote of the Day: “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”…George H. W. Bush (Born this day in 1924)