Monday January 20
It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day
Happy Cheese Lovers Day !
1841: The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997
1887: The Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base
1892: The first official basketball game was played by students at the Springfield, MA, YMCA Training School
1942: Nazi officials held the Wannsee Conference accepting the “Final Solution” that called for exterminating Europe’s Jews. The film “Conspiracy” is a brilliant, fact based, film about the gathering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
1981: Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The release occurred minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan
1994: Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel. Faulkner dropped out
The Eagles
2017: Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. History to repeat it’s self
In the News: King Holiday means no School for the Kids. Federal, State and local offices closed…Stony Point woman back in jail…Hiddenite man held without bond…Hickory Police charge Taylorsville man…Statesville man get Federal Prison time for trafficking meth
Weather: COLD TEMPS all week ! Really COLD
Sports: Cougar Basketball hits bump in road at South Caldwell…Bill, Chiefs, Eagles and Commanders reach the NFL Final Four…College Football Championship tonight, Ohio State big favorite over Notre Dame
Nikki Haley
Solar Farms are keeping Sheep from the ranks of unemployed https://apnews.com/article/sheep-solar-texas-climate-333e72167bcf24047257e1be352ce1a9
Word of the Day: pander [ pan-der ] To cater to or profit from the weaknesses or vices of others. To say, do, or provide what someone (such as an audience) wants or demands even though it is not good, proper, reasonable, etc. “The official is accused of pandering”
Quote of the Day: “I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty”… George Burns (Born this day in 1896”