Friday, April 5th. Day 96 of 2024
Happy Walk to Work Day ! Pretty spooky at 3am
It’s Deep Dish Pizza Day. Save a slice for me
1614: Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621: The Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1923: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
1951: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union
The Bundys
1993: North Carolina beats Michigan, 77-71 to win the College Basketball National Championship
2010: A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 29
2010: Duke beats Butler to win the NCAA Basketball Championship
In the News: Foxx honored by Governor and State Fire Marshal…Alexander County Sheriff’s Office make series of felony drug arrests…Taylorsville Police charge Hiddenite man with burning building…Wilkesboro convenience store robbed at gunpoint…
Weather: Sunny and Windy again. High might make 60
Sports: Brzykcy still rehabbing arm from surgery…Hammer to open season in Fresno…Women’s Final Four tips-off tonight, Lady Pack have tough task against South Carolina…Can NC State’s miracle run continue against Purdue on Saturday ?…Canes battered by the Big Bad Bruins…NASCAR runs at Martinsville
Happy Birthday: Michael Moriarty, Allan Clarke, Max Gail, Agnetha Fältskog, Paula Cole, Pharrell Williams, Henrik Stenson, Charlotte Flair, Lily James
Colin Cancer on the rise https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/1-unexpected-sign-colon-cancer-141602890.html
Missing California Dog found in Michigan https://www.yahoo.com/news/lifestyle/where-california-dog-missing-since-171017449.html
Go Pack !!!
Word of the Day: humbrage [uhm-brij ] To take offense, to annoy or to displease. To consider an insult or a slight. Umbrage is a word born from Latin meaning “shade, shadow,” Sentence: She took umbrage to the suggestion that she change her hairstyle.
Quote of the Day: “The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” … Bette Davis (Born this day in 1908)