Tuesday, July 8. Day 189 of 2025
It’s Video Game Day ! Not my thing, not even a little. Let’s put it at none
It’s Cow Appreciation Day
Happy National Blueberry Day !
1663: King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
1776: Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia
1889: The Wall Street Journal was first published
1960: The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane
1969: The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game “Twister.”
1994: A Grand Jury rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson for two-counts of murder
2015: The NFL’s Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans
2019: US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors
In the News: Teen drowns in Caldwell County…Taylorsville man charged with violating his registered sex offender status…Stony Point man arrested in Iredell County…Shots fired and man hit by moving vehicle near Hudson…Two Fox attacks reported on Wilkes Community College campus
Weather: HOT ! High near 95
Sports: Four Alexander Central Softball standouts make All-State…Cougar Fall Parents Meeting scheduled…Blue Jays win 9 straight…Cleveland snaps 10-game streak of futility…Phil Steele’s Pre-Season Top 25 College Football Poll is out and the top ranked team is from the Big 10 but it’s not Ohio State
Happy Birthday: Jeffrey Tambor, Kim Darby, Wolfgang Puck, Anjelica Huston, Jack Lambert, Kevin Bacon, Joan Osborne, Beck, Sophia Bush
Something you should know https://apnews.com/article/fly-factories-cattle-screwworm-texas-baf01b846d38e34d9ff1c1414cd752a4
Word of the Day: beseech [bih-seech] To implore urgently, to beg eagerly for, to make an urgent appeal. From Middle English meaning to seek. “I beseech you to take part in our project”
Quote of the Day: “That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’.”… Richard Armour