Monday, July 8th. Day 190 of 2024
It’s Video Game Day. Just not my thing in the least
Happy Town Crier Day ! Before the Printing Press and Radio, it’s how people got their News
1663: King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
1776: Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia
1889: The Wall Street Journal was first published
1960: The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane
1969: The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game “Twister.”
1994: A Grand Jury rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson for two-counts of murder
2015: The NFL’s Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans
2019: US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors
In the News: Statesville man charged in connection to juvenile being shot in Stony Point…Man arrested after brief pursuit Friday morning in Taylorsville…Statesville man surrenders to Alexander County Jail…Former teacher at Statesville Christian School enters no-contest plea to assault charges…Man operating ATV on Watauga County roadway dies in crash after striking deer
Weather: More Clouds than Sun…Stuffy, maybe some Rain
Sports: Do we see some work on the Alexander Central Turf Project today ?…LRU’s Baseball coach moves on…Braves take 2 of 3 from Phillies…Yankees have lost 15 of 20…Bridges gets new deal with Hornets…Bowman wins in the rain…Fist time winner on PGA Tour
Kevin Bacon
Hurricane heading for Texas https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-beryl-texas-7dfd5353671ee30d0c6d11518ea5a370
Word of the Day: Zen A sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation. A state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. Suggestive of the teachings or practice of Zen Buddhism
Quote of the Day: “I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician”… Marty Feldman