It’s Weatherperson’s Day. They DO GET IT RIGHT. I repeat, they DO GET IT RIGHT !!!
Happy Be an Optimist Day !
It’s Shower with a Friend Day. Great way to save water, met a wife that way
1881: Phoenix, AZ, was incorporated
1901: John Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corporation
1921: The New York Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1922: Readers Digest is published for the first time
1958: A hydrogen bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered
1969: United States population reaches 200 million for the first time
1971: Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands. Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1994: White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers
2017: New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl 34-28. Tom Brady named MVP
News: Man facing charges after firing shots in Alexander County road-rage incident…Stony Point man enter plea and gets prison time in child-sex case…Town of Taylorsville gets offer on former Urgent Care building…Unemployment drops in latest county figures…Caldwell County Deputies make large fentanyl seizure
Weather: Clouds and 43
Sports: Cougar Basketball hosts McDowell in the Den tonight…Clemson, App and Lenoir-Rhyne get Wednesday night Hoop wins…Hornets trade for a Tar Heel…Canes skate tonight then go on Olympic Break
Happy Birthday: Don Cherry, Roger Staubach, Al Kooper, Charlotte Rampling, Darrell Waltrip, Tim Meadows, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Laura Linney, Roberto Alomar, Sara Evans, Cristiano Ronaldo
Super Bowl Word of the Day: Shotgun [shot-guhn] In Shotgun formation, QBs will line up about 5 yards behind the center, rather than directly behind them. The Shotgun formation gives more space (and time) for the quarterback to react to defenses and pass rushers.
Quote of the Day: “Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?”… William S. Burroughs (Born this day in 1914)