Monday, April 7th.
It’s National Beer Day. I’m in
Happy No Housework Day ! I’m in
1902: Texas Oil Company, now Texaco forms
1943: The NFL adopts a free substitution rule and helmets are made mandatory
1948: The World Health Organization is formed by the United Nations
1963: 23-year old Jack Nicklaus wins the first of his record 6 Masters Championships
1968: Riots rage in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
2003: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later
2021: At auction, $3.25 million is paid for the comic book that introduced Superman for the first time
2021: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19
In the News: Doctor from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center arrested on Child-porn related charges in Alexander County…Taylorsville man gets prison time for supplying drugs to victim who died of overdose…Victim airlifted from Sunday motorcycle crash in Alexander County…Bethlehem woman arrested for assault with a deadly weapon…Alexander County Commissioners meet this evening
Weather: Rain today. Sunny and cooler on Tuesday
Sports: Cougar Softball takes two on Saturday…AC Baseball blanks Ashe County…Ovi passes Gretzky…Duke suffers epic meltdown in loss to Houston…Uconn with another Women’s title…Hamilin wins at Darlington…Vlad Jr hits the Jackpot…Giants have best record in Baseball, Braves the worst…It’s Masters Week
Happy Birthday: Jerry Brown, Francis Ford Coppola, John Oates, Janis Ian, Jackie Chan, Tony Dorsett, Buster Douglas, Thurl Bailey, Russell Crowe, Suzann Pettersen
Do you remember “Dennis the Menace?” https://apnews.com/article/jay-north-obit-dennis-menace-tv-42cb0be07d2f858a92576bc212964735
Man doing the Ronald McDonald thing arrested in Florida https://thesmokinggun.com/buster/clown/clown-collar-359012
Word of the Day: circumspect [ sur-kuhm-spekt ] watchful and discreet; well-considered. Latin meaning to look around. “The collector took a circumspect look at the item”
Quote of the Day: “Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”…Walter Winchell (Born this day in 1897)