Friday, September 25th. Day 269 of 2020
Today is Comic Book Day, Cooking Day, Pharmacists Day, and Hug a Vegetarian Day
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean
1789: Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: The first ten are known as the Bill of Rights
1957: Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops
1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John
1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion
2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault
In the News: Alexander COVID count passes 500…County urging citizens to complete Census form…Man held in Alexander County Jail on Felony counts…Statesville man charged with statutory rape…Hickory Police investigating strange marking left on vehicles
Weather: Rain Today, Weekend looks nice
Sports: No Cougar Football tonight, it would have been the bye-week anyway…Lakers go up 3-1…Final weekend of Baseball regular season…Panthers head to La La Land…Pack at Va Tech Saturday night…NASCAR runs in Vegas
Happy Birthday: Barbara Walters, Hubie Brown, Michael Douglas, Mark Hamill, Heather Locklear, Scottie Pippen, Will Smith, Catherine Zeta-Jones
A 40th Anniversary Rubik’s Cube has hit the market. I won’t be purchasing because I never could finish the original https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-24/tiny-rubiks-cube-goes-on-sale-in-japan-for-anniversary
Beware of Murder Hornets https://news.yahoo.com/could-murder-hornets-spread-across-133906860.html
Quote of the Day: “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond”… Mae West