Friday, October 23rd. Day 296 of 2026
It’s Crocs Day. I don’t own a pair and it’s highly unlikely I ever will
Happy Slap Your Co Worker Day ! Most likely a bad idea, I said most likely, don’t completely rule it out
1910: Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States
1929: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression
1973: President Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair
1991: Clarence Thomas is sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1993: Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays became only the second player to end the World Series with a home run
1998: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord
2001: Apple Computer releases the iPod
2023: ‘Superfog’ conditions near New Orleans cause a motorway pile-up involving 158 vehicles, causing seven deaths
News: Taylorsville woman charged with child abuse related offense…Three men arrested in camper theft investigation by the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office…Hudson man busted with more than 50 grams of fentanyl…Three area men charged with solicitation of juvenile…Early Voting nearing 15 percent in Alexander County
Weather: Sunny and 68
Sports: Alexander Central Volleyball romps on to Round IV of State Playoffs…AC JV Football humbled in Morganton…Can the Cougars pull a shocker tonight ? Coach Marshall says yes, we can !…App State gets Mega Win…Bears take down the Patriots…Panthers host Tampa Bay on Sunday…World Series Game I tonight, who you got ?…NASCAR runs really fast at Talledega
Happy Birthday: Dwight Yoakam, Nancy Grace, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Doug Flutie, Al Leiter Sanjay Gupta, Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke, Nick Bosa
Word of the Day: parquet [pahr-kay] a floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes with inlays of other woods or other materials, the main floor of a theater. From French. “The remodel will include parquet floors in the ground level.”
Quote of the Day: “When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. “… Robert Duvall