Monday, September 21st. Day 264 of 2026
It’s National Opioid Awareness Day, World Alzheimer’s Day and World Gratitude Day
Happy Last Day of Summer !
1784: “The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser” was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America
1897: The New York Sun ran the “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon
1937: J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” was first published
1938: A hurricane makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people
First MNF Broadcast Team; L-R Howard Cossell, Keith Jackson, Don Meredith
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1981: The Senate confirmed Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first female justice on the Supreme Court
1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution
2016: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to medical research to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”
2023: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch at 92 announces he is retiring from the boards of Fox and News Corporation
News: Renovation project begins today at Dusty Ridge Park…Alexander County Board of Education meets this evening…Man killed, Conover woman charged in Catawba County crash…Taylorsville woman charged…Pennsylvania teen charged with statutory rape in Iredell County…Man accused of threat to blow-up building at Lenoir’s Google campus
Weather: Sunny to start. High 88 with rain on the way for Tuesday and Wednesday
Sports: Cougars dominate South Iredell and sit at 4-1 going into bye week…Will the Wolfpack ever recover from the gaffs of all gaffs ? … Panthers destroys Falcons…Braves clinch division…Red Sox clinch playoff spot…Barrage in Bristol Garage Saturday night
Happy Birthday: Bill Kurtis, Richard Childress, Don Felder, Stephen King, Artis Gilmore, Bill Murray, Arie Luyendyk, Mark Levin, Nancy Travis, Rob Morrow, Faith Hill, Luke Wilson, Nicole Richie, Maggie Grace
Word of the Day: Starlink: a telecommunications subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX, it provides broadband internet service in approximately 160 countries and territories. As of June 2026, the network consisted of approximately 10,413 satellites in low Earth orbit.
Quote of the Day: “The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.”… H. G. Wells (Born this day in 1896)