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Richard C Gilbert’s Thursday Blog

November 8, 2018 By Richard C. Gilbert

* * * * T H U R S D A Y * * * * N O V E M B E R 8 * * * * D A Y 312 of 2018 * * * *

It’s X Ray Day ! While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray in 1895

President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed in 1933

The first jet pilot dogfight in military history took place this day when a US jet pilot shoots down two Russian made MIGs over North Korea in 1950

A merger between the National Football League and the upstart American Football League is agreed upon in 1966

2000: The first of multiple re-counts in Florida in the Presidential race between George W Bush and Al Gore

In the News: County Schools Finance Department wins award from state…Update on multiple car pileup that happened Tuesday night…Newton man arrested for failure appear on rape charge…Claremont woman charged with heroin possession this morning…

Weather: Clouds today with Rain coming

Sports: AC JV Football wins 32nd straight…Cougars host Hickory tonight in regular season finale…Panthers at Pittsburgh tonight…Pack and Deacs in primetime this evening…Lakers win, the Lebron Channel (previously known as ESPN will be all over that one)

Bonnie Raitt

Happy Birthday: Bobby Bowden, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Hart, Alfre Woodard, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Giancarlo Stanton

One in five couples manage their finances separately according to research. Does that include that money under a photograph in your wallet ?

The political signs are on the decrease. Saw some being removed Wednesday, please collect them. Store them and run again !

Listen to win this morning, we play Cougar Football Trivia at 7:45. Tickets to the game tonight and a gift certificate from PJ’s Bethlehem Seafood and Steak !

Quote of the Day: “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died”…Erma Bombeck

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