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Richard C Gilbert’s Friday Blog

July 14, 2023 By Richard C. Gilbert

Friday, July 15th. Day 195 of 2023

It’s French Fry Day !

Happy National Nude Day. Maybe if you eat to many Fries, going Nude is not such a good idea

1853: The first World’s Fair opens in New York City

1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico

1933: In Germany, Adolf Hitler abolishes all political parties except the Nazis

1946: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” was first published

1967: The Who began their first American tour as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits

1968: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 500th career home run. He was just getting warmed up

2015: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first space mission to explore Pluto

In the News: Alexander County Independence Celebration is Saturday night…Newton woman arrested in Alexander County…Taylorsville man behind bars…Stony Point man charged…Catawba County man arrested on child-sex charges

Weather: Pretty warm, pretty humid and maybe stormy this weekend

Sports: Cougar Football Season begins 35 nights from tonight…Baseball is back…ACC gets a new TV deal…Women’s finals set at Wimbledon…NASCAR in New Hampshire

Happy Birthday: Nancy Olson, Rosey Grier, Franklin Graham, Eric Heiden, Jane Lynch, Missy Gold, Connor McGregor

FDA approves first over the counter Birth Control Pill https://apnews.com/article/birth-control-pills-without-prescription-fda-b6728e98af5f1625520e0fa5fbc911c3

New World’s Record set for Push-Ups https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/lifestyle/new-world-record-for-most-pushups-in-one-hour/story

Word of the Day: sternutation [ stur-nyuh-tey-shuhn ] The act of sneezing Sternutation is based on the Latin verb sternūtāre, “to sneeze repeatedly

Quote of the Day: “This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me”…Woody Guthrie (Born this day in 1912)

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