Thursday, March 12th. Day 71of 2026
Happy Plant a Flower Day ! It’s Girl Scouts Day, Popcorn Lovers Day, Baked Scallops Day, and Working Moms Day
1894: Coca-Cola begins selling their product in bottles for the first time
1918: Moscow is proclaimed the capital of Russia. St Petersburg had been capital for over 200 years
1930: Mahatma Gandhi begins his “March to the Sea”
1933: FDR addresses the Nation in the first of his “Fireside Chats”
1959: Hawaii becomes our 50th State
1987: Les Miserables opens on Broadway
2009: Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history
2020: President Trump suspends travel to Europe because of the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the News: Fire claims Alexander County Home Wednesday morning…County Board of Elections will canvass Primary Election Friday morning…Wilkes County Register of Deeds arrested on felony drug charges…Lenoir man in custody after allegedly firing into occupied vehicle…Father and son from Catawba County get prison time for extorting money from their landscaping customers
Weather: Rain, maybe a storm with falling temps today
Sports: AC Softball takes advantage of Ashe County miscues…ACC Tournament gets the top four seeds involved today…Hornets beat the tanking Kings…Panthers sign two coveted free agent linebackers…Team USA gets a mulligan in World Baseball Classic
Happy Birthday: Liza Minnelli, Mitt Romney, James Taylor, Jon Provost, Dale Murphy, Steve Levy, Darryl Strawberry, Jake Tapper
Word of the Day; Iditarod [/aɪˈdɪtərɒd/] The annual long-distance sled dog race held in Alaska in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome. Mushers and a team of between 12 and 16 dogs cover the distance in 8–15 days or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race#Last_dash
Quote of the Day: “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”… Ludwig van Beethoven
Follow me on facebook !