Friday, February 13th. Day 44 of 2026
It’s Friday the 13th !!!
Happy World Radio Day !
1741: “The American Magazine,” the first magazine in the U.S., was published in Philadelphia
1920: The National Negro Baseball League was organized
1935: In New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes
1954: Frank Selvy of Furman becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
2000: Charles M. Schulz’s last original Sunday “Peanuts” comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before
2017: Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The hit allegedly ordered by Kim Jong-un, AKA Rocket-Man
2022: Rams beat Cincinnati in Super Bowl played in Los Angeles
News: Day 1 of Early Voting in the books…Fie overnight destroys structure on Rink Dam Road…Taylorsville man nabbed and charged with resisting arrest…Alexander County man busted on felony drug charge…More than 80 arrests in Ashe County Drug operation…Former Mooresville Police Officer files lawsuit against city
Weather: Sunny and 55 today
Sports: Barnette takes runner-up sport in State Shotput…Cougar Basketball conclude regular season tonight at South Caldwell…Tar Heel Freshman Phenom is out with broken bone in hand…NBA is All-Star Break is there anything that excites you less ?…US wins Hockey opener in Italy…NASCAR’s Daytona 500 is Sunday
Happy Birthday: Kim Novak, Stockard Channing, Mike Krzyzewski, Peter Gabriel, Denise Austin, Neal McDonough, Randy Moss
Today’s Winter Olympics TV Schedule https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/winter-olympics-tv-schedule-today-how-to-watch-every-event-on-friday/ar-AA1WgQP9
Word of the Day: lithe [lahyth] flexable or supple, bending readily. From German “The dancer was graceful, lithe and athletic.”
Quote of the Day: “Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.”… Tennessee Ernie Ford (Born this day in 1919)