Thursday, May 9th. Day 130 of 2024
Happy Moscato Day !
It’s Lost Sock Memorial Day. They gotta be somewhere. Probably together and plotting an overthrow
1865: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end; this is the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War
1914: President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
1960: The US becomes the first nation to legalize a birth control pill
1974: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon
2017: President Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
2020: The COVID-19 virus causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, the worst since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate had been the lowest since WWII prior to the pandemic
In the News: Bethlehem store sells $1 million lotto ticket…Hit and run driver strikes Alexander County School Bus on Wednesday…Taylorsville has a pair of wastewater overflows during Tuesday downpour…
Weather: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. It becomes breezy
Sports: Lady Cougar Softball wins Round I Playoff Game…AC Women’s Soccer blanks Freedom…Canes hope to rebound on home ice tonight…Knicks go up 2-0…Braves hand Red Sox a shutout…Jays cool the Phillies…PGA Tour in Charlotte
Billy Joel
Big Red Wagon is up for auction https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/05/08/Radio-Flyer-car-auction/8251715198928/
Alexander County School Superintendent Dr Jennifer Hefner will join me this morning for a chat about the Phone-Free Friday event schedule for Friday, May 17th. Catch the conversation at 7:45 am !
Word of the Day: self-effacing [ self-i-feys-ing ] To be modest or timid. Making one’s actions inconspicuous. Sentence: “The actor’s self-effacing humor endeared him to fans who appreciated his lack of arrogance”
Quote of the Day: “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken”… Frank Perdue (Born this day in 1920)