Monday, November 17. Day 321 of 2025
It’s Take a Hike Day !
1603: Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason
1800: Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building
1869: The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red Seas
1968: The Heidi Game. NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, “Heidi,” on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32. It took decades for NBC to live that one down
1970: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre
1973: President Nixon told reporters “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
2019: The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, China
News: Alexander County woman dies in Friday night crash…25 acres charred in Iredell County grass and woods fire on Sunday…Taylorsville man jailed without bond…Hiddenite man facing felony counts following Saturday arrest…Taylorsville man taken into Catawba County custody…Granite Falls man gets prison term for drug trafficking
Weather: Sunny and 63
Sports: Cougar Basketball romps over Ashe County in Friday night sweep… Watauga, Freedom, Hickory, Hibriten, Newton-Conover and East Wilkes among the area High School Football teams to reach Round III of Playoffs…Panthers get overtime win in Atlanta…Former Alexander County Parks and Recreation Director Bill Glad passes at 74
Happy Birthday: Martin Scorsese, Lauren Hutton, Jim Boeheim, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Butch Davis, Stephen Root, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, RuPaul, Daisy Fuentes, Sophie Marceau, Rachel McAdams
This will make you do a double-take https://apnews.com/article/rabbits-with-horns-virus-colorado-tentacles-papillomavirus-98b1ad95ba3a0f308bf884d79d1eea7c
Word of the Day: Perth [purth] The fourth largest city in Australia. A county in Scotland ( also referred to as Perthshire)
Quote of the Day: “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”… Theodore Roosevelt
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