Friday, March 6. Day 65 of 2026
It’s Dress in Blue Day, Middle Name Pride Day, National Dentist’s Day and Oreo Cookie Day
Happy National Employee Appreciation Day !
1820: The Missouri Compromise was enacted by Congress. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory
1836: The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers
1899: Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser
1946: Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state
1960: The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam
1981: Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of “CBS Evening News
1992: The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984
2018: Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person
News: Parents and students at Ellendale Elementary hear details on STEM plan for school…Stony Point man jailed on drug charge in Catawba County…Taylorsville woman charged with assault…Hickory man gets 6-8 years for trafficking drugs…Conover man pleads guilty to crimes and gets prison sentence
Weather: Sunny and 80
Sports: Wike named Conference Co-Player of the Year…Adams, Jack and Head named All Conference…AC Softball blanks team from Pennsylvania…Cougar Baseball at N Iredell today…Hornets go for their 7th win in a row this evening…Carolina at Duke Saturday night…NASCAR runs in Phoenix
Happy Birthday: Alan Greenspan, Valentina Tereshkova, David Gilmour, Kiki Dee, Tom Arnold, D. L. Hughley, Shaquille O’Neal
The ins and outs of time change https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-time-states-congress-standard-4cd5b467eed4ad1f112f0834aee3d45b
Word of the Day: confluence [kon-floo-uhns] place of junction, flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like, a gathering of people. “St. Louis is at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.”
Quote of the Day: “A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.”… Cyrano de Bergerac (Born this day in 1619)
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