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