Friday, December 12th. Day 346 of 2025. Down to just 13 Shopping Days until Christmas
Happy Poinsettia Day !
1800: Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States
1896: Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio in London
1900: Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation
1946: ‘Tide’ laundry detergent introduced
1925: The “Motel Inn,” the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, California
1975: Sara Jane Moore pleads guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford
1977: “Saturday Night Fever”, starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City
2000: The Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the Presidential election was unconstitutional. Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day
2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite
News: Stony Point man just out of prison arrested…Statesville man taken into Alexander County custody overnight…Newton man gets prison time for attacking female with a machete…Man charged with fatal stabbing of woman on Charlotte Light Rail Train now being held in Catawba County
Weather: Clearing and 45. Arctic Blast coming Sunday night
Sports: JV Cougar Basketball teams beat North Iredell, Varsity postponed again at Ashe County…Watauga plays for State 6A Football Championship this afternoon…Falcons beat the bumbling Bucs putting the Panther in sole possession of Division Lead…Canes win in overtime shootout…Braves make a couple moves
Happy Birthday: Bob Pettit, Dionne Warwick, Emerson Fittipaldi, Cathy Rigby, Tracy Austin, Mike Golic, Jennifer Connelly Mayim Bialik
He forgot to say Geronimo https://apnews.com/article/australia-parachute-entangled-ff6a37bbeb8af80718114a9b379b7b49
Word of the Day: silhouette [sil-oo-et] a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person’s face in profile. A dark image outlined against a lighter background. From Frenchman Étienne de Silhouette who was notorious for both his frugality and his hobby of making cut-paper shadow portraits. “My piano teacher has a framed silhouette of Mozart on her wall.’
Quote of the Day: “You can’t play music and be mad at anybody. It’ll show in your heart.”… Dickey Betts (Born this day in 1943)