Monday, November 10th. Day 314 of 2025
Happy Sesame Street Day !
Semper Fi ! It’s Marines Day
1775: The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps
1919: The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis
1969: Sesame Street aired for the first time on PBS
1975: The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot did this great tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
1980: CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare
1989: Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall
1993: The House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases
1996: Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards
2022: Largest art auction in history belonging to late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen achieves sales of $1.5 billion, which is to be donated to charity
News: Three men involved in Road Rage incident in Alexander County make court appearance today…Troutman Police investigating fatal crash…Pedestrian struck and killed in Burke County…Minor Earthquake reported in Ashe County…Taylorsville woman jailed on felony charge…Hiddenite woman facing felony drug count in Catawba County…Alexander County School Board meets this evening…County Office and Taylorsville Town Hall will be closed Tuesday for Veterans Day
Weather: Sunny, Breezy and Cold. High in low 40’s with wind gusting to 20 mph
Sports: Disappointing Cougar Football season ends Friday night at Statesville…AC Soccer in Round II Playoff action tonight at AC Reynolds…Brzykcy released by Nats picked up by Miami…Panther offense sputters and that’s being kind…Patriots win 7th straight…Wake Forest gets big win over Virginia…Canes rally for win in Toronto…
Happy Birthday: Donna Fargo, Roland Emmerich, Mackenzie Phillips, Mike McCarthy, Tracy Morgan, Ellen Pompeo, Miranda Lambert, Jon Rahm
450,000 Owls to be killed in Western US https://nypost.com/2025/11/08/us-news/us-government-to-shoot-down-450k-barred-owls-out-west-to-stave-off-rival-owls-extinction-dei-for-owls/
Word of the Day: Lapland [lap-land] Lapland is a region (mostly above the Arctic Circle) in northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the northwestern Russian Federation. The region is home to several hundred thousand reindeer. Lapland is derived from Lapp, the name Scandinavians ascribed to the Sami people, who have sparsely inhabited the region for several thousand years.
Quote of the Day: “The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it”… William James