Thursday, August 6th. Day 218 of 2026
It’s Hiroshima Day
Happy Fresh Breath Day !
1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair
1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel
1945: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
1962: Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1965: The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Johnson
1996: NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil
1998: Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her “relationship” with President Clinton
2012: NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars
News: Sheriff Pennell warns of scam…Taylorsville Town Council names new employees…Could the Town of Ronda be dissolved ?…Stony Point man arrested overnight…Wilkes County man given long prison sentence…More details emerge in Burke County double-murder
Weather: Remember yesterday ? Today should be a repeat
Sports: Taylorsville’s Jayon Connor considered one the nation’s fastest rising college basketball recruits… Former Cougar Bryson Hammer wins Pitcher of the Month award…App State\s AD named to College Football Playoff Selection Committee…Panthers play Arizona tonight in Hall of Fame Game…Dodgers drop 6th straight…Braves and Red Sox extend winning streaks to 7 games…PGA tees-off today in Greensboro
Happy Birthday: Catherine Hicks, David Robinson, Mike Greenberg, M. Night Shyamalan, Geri Halliwell, Soleil Moon Frye
It’s hard to get good help https://www.foxnews.com/us/amazon-driver-caught-video-flinging-customers-package-porch-infuriating-delivery-blunder
Word of the Day: panegyrize [pan-i-juh-rahyz] to extol in public, to praise highly, to make a eulogy or eulogies. From Greek. “The pundit extolled and panegyrized the former congress member is such a way, it almost made you believe it.”
Quote of the Day: “If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.”… J. Robert Oppenheimer