Thursday, August 29. Day 242 of 2024
Happy Shop Suey Day !
1842: The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain
1898: The Goodyear Tire company is founded
1949: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb
1957: Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes
1958: United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq
1997: Netflix is launched
2005: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall devastating New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast
In the News: Road Rage leads to gunfire in Eastern Alexander County on Wednesday…Former poultry house structure goes up in flames Wednesday morning…Hiddenite man charged after road-rage turns to gunfire…Two men get prison time in Alexander County Superior Court…Taylorsville man in jail again…Alexander County man arrested for indecent exposure
Weather: Sunny and 92
Sports: AC Soccer falls to Hickory…Cougar Volley beaten by Maiden…JV Football at Wilkes Central tonight…Coach Carter talks blocking and tackling…College Football tonight, NC State, UNC and Wake Forest in action…Cut by Panthers signed by 49rs…Braves use the Broom…Caitlin sets a record
Elliot Gould
Wait ! Duke Energy is dropping rates ? https://www.wbtv.com/2024/08/28/duke-energy-rate-drop-coming-customers-carolinas-heres-when-how-much/
Word of the Day: Puget Sound- A sound on the northwestern coast of the state of Washington. It is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins. Major cities on the sound include Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett. Puget Sound is also the second-largest estuary in the United States, after Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. George Vancouver gave the name “Puget’s Sound” to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, in honor of Peter Puget, a Huguenot lieutenant accompanying him on the Vancouver Expedition.
Quote of the Day: “What worries you, masters you”… John Locke (Born this day in 1632)