Monday, August 16th. Day 228 of 2021
Happy Rum Day !
It’s Rollercoaster Day
1858: President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of England. A weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks
1920: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. He dies the next day
1948: Babe Ruth died at the age of 53
1954: Sports Illustrated is published for the first time
1967: Louis Armstrong records “What a wonderful world”
1977: Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 in Memphis
1995: Voters in Bermuda reject independence from Great Britain
In the News: Alexander COVID numbers starting to be scary…County population dropped 2.4 percent in past decade…Car crashes into Bethlehem home…Man jailed on felony drug counts in Alexander County…Taylorsville man nabbed Saturday…
Weather: Rain to start the week
Sports: Lady Cougar begins season today…Cougar Football ramps up everything, it’s real starting Friday night…Panthers fall to Colts in Pre-season opener…Kisner survives playoff in Greensboro…Surprise winner at Indy
Happy Birthday: Julie Newmar, Lesley Ann Warren, Kathie Lee Gifford, James Cameron, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Belinda Carlisle, Timothy Hutton, Steve Carell, Eddie Olczyk, Yu Darvish
Your cellphone might be helping to create an eco-disaster https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210809-how-your-phone-battery-creates-striking-landscapes
Another bombastic blunder while Joe was napping https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-5934ef05b0094d0189b5d900d2380179
Interesting front page story in Sunday’s Hickory Daily Record https://hickoryrecord.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/taylorsville-residents-react-to-capture-of-fugitive-couple-from-alexander-county/article_f50b4064-fab8-11eb-8749-334693910c75.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
Quote of the Day: “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do”…Henry Ford