Monday, August 24th. Day 236 of 2026
Happy Waffle Day and Peach Pie Day too
1814: British troops invade Washington, D.C. and set the Capital Building and White House ablaze
Hal Smith
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1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop
1968: France became the 5th thermonuclear power when they exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific
1989: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling on baseball
1981: Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon
1992: Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew
2006: The planet Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet” by the International Astronomical Union
2014: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989
News: Back to School for Alexander County, watch out the Big Yellow Busses are rolling…Man tries in Wilkes County tractor mishap…Stony Point woman charged with stabbing offense…Stony Point man jailed for violating sex-offender status again…Conover man charged with shooting son
Weather: Sunny and 85
Sports: Cougars Roar to win over Newton-Conover. If you missed it, your mistake…Panthers get preseason win…Clark wins Leg II of FedEx Cup Playoffs…Blaney holds on to win in New Hampshire…Phillies are within three games of Atlanta…Dodgers are getting players back and warming
Happy Birthday: Anne Archer, Mike Huckabee, Steve Guttenberg, Cal Ripken, Jr., Major Garrett, Marlee Matlin, Reggie Miller, Dave Chappelle, Rupert Grint
No need to smile, you’re not on camera https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/flock-bait-bust-284019
Word of the Day: trestle [tres-uhl] a braced framework of timbers, piles, or steelwork for carrying a road or railroad over a depression. “The locomotive chugged it’s way across the trestle.”
Quote of the Day: “The kids deserved it.”…ACHS Football Coach Chris Marshall on Friday night’s win at Newton-Conover