Thursday, December 5th. 20 Shopping Days till Christmas !
It’s National Repeal Day! The wrong-headed Prohibition era ended after 13 years*
1776: At The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized
1848: President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California
1908: The University of Pittsburgh became the first College Football Team to use numbers on their uniforms
*1933: Prohibition ended with the passage of the 21st Amendment. I’ll drink to that !
1945: The “Lost Squadron” disappeared. Five Navy Avenger bombers flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again
1988: Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch of the PTL Club were indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy charges
2008: O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery. He would serve less than 10
2018: The US State Funeral for former President George H. W. Bush is held
In the News: Taylorsville Tree gets lights at Hometown Christmas Celebration this evening…South Carolina fugitive captured in Alexander County…Hiddenite man jailed this morning…Morganton man arrested for statutory rape…
Weather: Sunny and Breezy. High mid to upper 40’s Back to the Ice Box tonight with a low of 17
Sports: Cougar Hoops takes 3 of 4 over South Iredell…Some more Alexander Cenetral All-Conference selections…Duke wins over Auburn but ACC gets humiliated by SEC in Challenge…Packers at Lions tonight
Happy Birthday: Andy Kim, Jim Messina, Jim Plunkett, Lanny Watkins, Morgan Brittany, Art Monk, Margaret Cho, Ross Bagley
Flashing Plastic is dooming Gen X https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/ar-AA1vfgir
Word of the Day: inane [ ih-neyn ] Lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: Empty or void. “It was funny how many inane comments followed the show”
Quote of the Day: “There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry”…Quote George Armstrong Custer (Born this day in 1839)