Friday, August 12th. Day 224 of 2022
It’s World Elephant Day. Something that big deserves their day
1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World
1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine
1877: Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph and made the fist sound recording
1898: Hawaii is annexed by the United States
1939: “The Wizard of Oz” premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The movie premiered in Hollywood on August 15th
1981: IBM unveiled it’s first PC
1994: Major league baseball players went on strike. The strike lasted for 232 days. As a result, the World Series was wiped out for the first time in 90 years
2021: Phoenix is reported to be the US’s fastest-growing city (+11.2%), overtaking Philadelphia to be the nations’s fifth largest at 1.6 million
In the News: Stony Point man charged with sexual assault…Wilkes woman and child killed in crash…Man found dead in Hickory parking lot, suspect charged…Man pleads guilty for shooting death of Granite Falls Man…Lenoir man charged with animal cruelty
Weather: Great Weekend in store. Daytime highs 80-84, lower humidity !
Sports: Cougar Football scrimmages at Wilkes Central tonight…Panthers in DC on Saturday for first pre-season game…Brady not in Tampa Bay camp…NBA to honor Russell by retiring his number 6…Hickory’s JT Poston two back in PGA event…Cubs and Reds play in corn field…NASCAR runs Richmond this weekend
Happy Birthday: George Hamilton, Mark Knopfler, Pat Metheny, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Pete Sampras, Casey Affleck, Maggie Lawson
Cars are Sooo expensive https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-used-car-price-kelley-blue-book/
Wow! Woman called cops 11,000 times http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/serial-phone-harasser-759320
Quote of the Day: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”… William Shakespeare