Monday, June 24th. Day 176 of 2024
It’s Swim A Lap Day
1497: Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland
1509: Henry VIII was crowned King of England
1922: The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League
1948: The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade
1964: The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking
1974: “Sweet Home Alabama” is released by Lynrd Skynryd
1997: The U.S. Air Force released a report titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed” that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947
2010: Apple released the iPhone 4. 1.7 million were sold in three days
2022: The Supreme Court rules that the Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states
In the News: Woman killed in Sunday fire north of Taylorsville…Second fire torches home south of Taylorsville Sunday afternoon…Woods and grass fire chars acres win Western Alexander County on Saturday…Hickory man charged in fatal Lincoln County hit and run…Taylorsville man arrested on kidnapping charge…Iredell County man gets long prison sentence for child-sex crimes
Weather: Sunny and 90. Sunday’s high was 94 ! Try to go as long as possible today without saying, “It’s Hot”
Sports: Turf and Track project set to begin this week at the crumbling edifice…Game VII tonight for Lord Stanley’s Cup !!!…College World Series to be decided this evening…Scottie does it again…Christopher Bell takes checkered flag in New Hampshire
Happy Birthday: Michelle Lee, Robert Reich, Mick Fleetwood, Nancy Allen, John Tortorella, Iain Glen, Minka Kelly, JJ Reddick, Lionel Messi
I’ll take Postage Stamps for $200, Alex https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/other/late-jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-to-be-honored-with-new-forever-stamp/ar-BB1oHNpH
It was very uncomfortable to watch https://www.yahoo.com/sports/six-intruders-run-onto-18th-203823602.html
Word of the Day: hinterland [ hin-ter-land ] The remote or less developed parts of a country. From German Hinterland, literally “behind the land. “The bustling port city was surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated hinterland. ”
Quote of the Day: “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher”… Ambrose Bierce (Born this day in 1824)