Tuesday, December 17th. 8 Shopping Days till Christmas
It’s Wright Brothers Day !
Happy Maple Syrup Day
1892: First issue of Vogue is published
1903: The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1933: The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21
1944: The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of excluding Japanese-Americans from the West Coast which ensured that Japanese-Americans were released from detention camps
1953: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved color television specifications . Do you remember having a black and white set ?
1957: The United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time
1969: The U.S. Air Force closed its Project “Blue Book” by concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1992: – U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement
2014: The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.
In the News: Felony Drug arrest made by Alexander County Sheriff’s Office on Monday…Statesville man charged in Alexander County…Hiddenite woman sent to jail…Taylorsville man jailed by Hickory Police
Weather: Fog and Clouds on Tuesday. At least it gets warmer
Sports: Millsaps signs to play Football at Naval Academy…Cougar Basketball sweeps Newton-Conover…Clawson steps down at Wake Forest…Legette to miss some time with Panthers…Mahomes likely to miss a game or two for Chiefs
Happy Birthday: Pope Francis, Chris Mathews, Wes Studi, Michelle Tofoya, Sarah Paulson, Milla Jovovich, Chase Utley
They better get this Drone thing figured out before Santa takes flight next week https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=116820553
Word of the Day: histrionic [ his-tree-on-ik ] Deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. An actor. From Latin meaning actor. “She has a penchant for dish throwing, door slamming, and other histrionic displays of temper.”
Quote of the Day: “When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary”.. William Safire (Born this day in 1929)