Thursday, September 21. Day 264 of 2023
It’s World Gratitude Day !
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”
In the News: Dyson wins Order of the Long Leaf Pine…Hickory widow suing Google…Hiddenite man back in jail…Taylorsville man gets 30 days in jail…Conover man sent to prison for at least 5.5 years…F.A.A casting eye at Hickory Airport…Highway Patrol says Hickory Police Officer was going 95 mph when he struck a mini-van leading to a pair of fatalities
Weather: Sunshine and 79
Sports: Cougar Volleyball and Soccer get big league wins on Wednesday…East Football stays perfect…Panther QB didn’t practice on Wednesday…Some tight Wild Card races in Baseball
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
The first Bob Ross painting done on his show to gofor big bucks https://apnews.com/article/painting-bob-ross-sale-f79ecfd4437ca21c813a9b73646b54a7
Some tabloid stuff, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/travis-kelces-brother-on-nfl-stars-taylor-swift-dating-rumors-i-think-it-s-all-100-true/ar-AA1h0exB
Word of the Day: quidditch An imaginary game in which players fly on broomsticks. The game was first coined by author J. K. Rowling in the novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”
Quote of the Day: “Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion”…Scott Adams