Monday June 2nd. Day 153 of 2025
Deadheads, it’s Volkswagen Bus Day
Happy Leave Work Early Day ! Keep watch on the back door
1835: P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States
1896: Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph
1924: President Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States
1928: The Kraft Company introduces Velveeta cheese
1959: Alexander County Sheriff Thomas E Bebber was shot and killed
1979: Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist nation
1997: In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later
2012: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
2023: US Army renames Fort Bragg in North Carolina as Fort Liberty as part of effort to remove Confederate names from military bases; namesake Braxton Bragg served in the Conferate Army. It’s now Fort Bragg again
In the News: Taylorsville woman charged with fatal crash in Iredell County…Catawba County authorities trying to make sense of mass shooting…One dead, two wounded in Burke County shootout…Taylorsville woman facing charges in two counties…Alexander County Commissioners expected to approve new budget at meeting this evening
Weather: Sunny and 80!
Sports: South Caldwell and West Wilkes win State Softball Titles…North Lincoln wins 3A Baseball Crown…LRU will play for DIV National Championship…Duke Baseball advances to Super Regional…UNC and Wake Forest will try to advance today…Rockies are 9-50…Starks wins Women’s US Open…All you need to say is Scottie…Blaney wins in Nashville
Happy Birthday: Stacy Keach, Jerry Mathers, Gary Bettmen, Craig Stadler, Dennis Haysbert, Dana Carvey, Kyle Petty, Wayne Brady, Nikki Cox, Abby Wambach
As if life was not difficult enough, chances are your password been leaked https://www.yahoo.com/news/urgent-warning-issued-us-consumers-210000271.html
While you sleep, Mites are having a party on your face ! https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/health/demodex-mites-face-skin-sleep-wellness
Word of the Day: apposite [ ap-uh-zit ] suitable, appropriate, relevant. From Latin. The word is the opposite of opposite. “The song was apposite for the time”
Quote of the Day: “I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband”… Thurgood Marshall (Born this day in 1908)