Monday, February 21. Day 52 of 2022
It’s President’s Day. Somebody tell Joe. Never mind
1842: John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine
1848: The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1878: The first telephone directories are issued in the U.S. to residents in New Haven, CT. The single sheet had 50 names and numbers
1947: Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The camera went on sale the following year
1948: NASCAR is incorporated
1965: Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims
1975: Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up
1995: Steve Fossett lands in Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon
In the News: County Commissioners to hold special closed-session meeting…County School Board meets Tuesday to consider masking policy…Hickory man charged in Alexander County…Taylorsville woman facing charges…Woman facing long list of offenses…Man charged with statutory rape in Caldwell County…Boomer man nabbed
Weather: Super Weather to start the Week. High today in 60’s
Cougar Student Section AKA..The Knuckleheads
Happy Birthday: Tyne Daly, William Petersen, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Trammell. Mary Chapin Carpenter, William Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt
If these dullards figured it out, it’s too easy https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-brooklyn-gang-members-stole-millions-in-covid-aid-20220218-poe5moloafht3azdzwfticm5xe-story.html
Beware, Hank is near https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-lake-tahoe-bear-california-hank-the-tank-breaks-into-home/
Quote of the Day: “I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‘Checkout Time is 18 years”… Erma Bombeck (Born this day in 1927)