Thursday, March 6th. Day 65 of 2025
It’s Employee Appreciation Day and Dentists Day
Happy Oreo Cookie Day !
1820: The Missouri Compromise was enacted by Congress. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory
1836: The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers
1899: Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser
1946: Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state
1960: The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam
1981: Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of “CBS Evening News
1992: The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984
2018: Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person
In the News: Taylorsville man charged with statutory rape in Iredell County…Taylorsville man allegedly assaults Deputy…Alexander County man charged with felony drug trafficking…Boone Police file charges against man for stealing credit card information from hotels…Bethlehem Park to reopen on April 1st
Weather: Wind continues. Sunshine and near 50 this afternoon
Sports: New Cougar Football Coach Chris Marshall close to getting his staff assembled…AC Softball hosts East Wilkes today…Panthers looking at some potential free-agents…Wolfpack get Hoops win…Hornets lose of course…Ovi gets closer to Gretzky…
Happy Birthday: Alan Greenspan, Valentina Tereshkova, David Gilmour, Rob Reiner, Kiki Dee, Tom Arnold, D. L. Hughley, Shaquille O’Neal
You’ll find this hard to swallow https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/tiffany-swallow-robbery-609412
Dr. Bill Griffin
Word of the Day: tete-a-tete [ tet-uh-tet ] A private conversation or interview, usually between two people. Two people together in private. From French meaning “head to head.” “They were seen in the back booth having a little tet-a-tete”
Quote of the Day: “They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square:… Willie Stargell (Born this day in 1940”