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Richard C Gilbert’s Friday Blog

June 24, 2022 By Richard C. Gilbert

Friday, June 24th. Day 175 of 2022

It’s Take Your Dog to Work Day. What if he don’t like it ?

Happy Swim a Lap Day ! Good idea

1880: First performance of O Canada . The song would later become the national anthem of Canada

1922: The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League

1948: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin illegal

1964: The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking

1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” was released

1997: The U.S. Air Force released a report titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed” that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

2010: Apple released the iPhone 4. 1.7 million of the devices would be sold in 3 days

In the News: 45th annual Vashti Day is Saturday…Alexander County Schools announce some administration changes…CVCC to build a Hickory Airport…Taylorsville man enters plea and gets prison time…Stony Point man facing Hickory charges

Weather: Sunny with a high of 86 today, maybe an afternoon Boomer

Sports: Alexander Central Athletics to hold Golf Tournament in July…Hornets might have drafted a rim protector…Hickory’s JT Poston tied for lead in PGA Tournament…Braves win again, host Freddie and the Dodgers this weekend…It’ll be Ole Miss and Oklahoma for CWS Final…NASCAR in Music City

Happy Birthday: Mick Fleetwood, Michele Lee, Jeff Beck, Robert Reich, Nancy Allen, Iain Glen, J.J. Redick, Lionel Messi

A case of Monkeypox confirmed in North Carolina https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-pandemics-united-nations-2672737d50fa8ca3029c053ce745ae6a?utm_source=Connatix&utm_medium=HomePage

Another Joe moment https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/a-very-specific-cheat-sheet-reminds-biden-how-to-act/

What’s in your bowl of soup ? https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/23/Guinness-World-Records-alphabet-soup/3191656016665/

Quote of the Day: “A man is what he thinks about all day long”…Ralph Waldo Emerson

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