Friday, July 17. Day 198 of 2026
It’s Tattoo Day. Never, never, I say !
Happy Peach Ice Cream Day and World Emoji Day
1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States
1867: Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in America
1941: The longest hitting streak in baseball history (56 games) ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless
1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California
Love Valley Music Festival
1984: The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21
1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and rear Admiral John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress at the “Iran-Contra” hearings
1997: After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed their last 400 stores
2019: Mexican drug cartel head Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in New York
News: Vacated chicken house gutted by fire on Thursday in Northern Alexander County…Alexander County Deputies arrest wanted suspect rom Iredell County…Stony Point man lands in jail again…Newton man gets prison sentence after entering plea to trafficking fentanyl…Big Celebration in uptown Taylorsville Saturday evening, Music and Fireworks scheduled
Weather: Hot ! High near 95
Sports: Cougar Football kicks-off 5 weeks from tonight…App State Football looking to climb back from a five-win season…Large weekend in North Wilkesboro…Baseball back after All-Star Break…World Cup Final set for Sunday, Argentine vrs Spain, who you got ?…Round II of British Open underway in sunny England
Happy Birthday: Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom, Lucie Arnaz, Charley Steiner, Mark Bowden, David Hasselhoff, Bryan Trottier, Luke Bryan
Some advice for mad scrollers https://apnews.com/article/trigger-thumb-de-quervains-tenosynovitis-carpal-tunnel-35728b0142d310cbc3bd5b9d63b6a8ab
Word of the Day: urbane [ur-beyn] sophisticated, polished, cultured, refined. Both urbane and urban derive from the Latin urbanus, “city,” “The urbane visitor felt a bit out of place in the rural setting.”
Quote of the Day: “The first hundred thousand – that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.”… John Jacob Astor