Tuesday, September 17th. Day 261 of 2024
Happy Country Music Day !
1787: It’s Constitution Day! The Constitution was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention
1911: The first transcontinental airplane flight started. It took C.P. Rogers 82 hours to fly from New York City to Pasadena, CA
1930: Construction on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, began in Black Canyon, near Las Vegas, NV
1976: “M*A*S*H” premiered on CBS
1978: The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt
1983: Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America
2001: The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression
In the News: Lenoir man indicted for murder by Alexander County Grand Jury…Taylorsville woman detained on Monday…Stony Point man jailed…Granite Falls man charged with statutory rape…Mooresville Police asking for assistance after pedestrian is struck and killed by hit and run driver…
Weather: More Rain and Wind today
Sports: Rain washes away some Cougar Athletic events on Monday…Cougar Football getting ready for a high voltage foe on Friday…Panthers bench Bryce Young, Andy Dalton to start game III…Falcons win late in Philly…Braves fall a game back of Mets
Happy Birthday: David Souter, Phil Jackson, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Rudner, Rasheed Wallace, Jimmie Johnson, Alex Ovechkin, Patrick Mahomes
“Superbug” might get us https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-40-million-people-could-223049433.html
Word of the Day: Macaw [ muh-kaw ] Various large, long-tailed parrots of tropical and subtropical America, noted for their brilliant plumage and distinctive light-colored facial patches: The term Macaw is Portuguese
Quote of the Day: “If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it’s never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely – by that time, you’re both dead”… Anne Bancroft (Born this day in 1931)