Thursday, February 17th. Day 48 of 2022
It’s National Random Acts of Kindness Day !
1801: The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president
1865: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces
1897: The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA
1934: The first High School Drivers Education classes begin in America. The classes were in State College, PA
1949: Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel
1976: The Eagles release their “Greatest Hits” album. It’s sold more than 45 million copies
1996: In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match
In the News: School Board to address masking and contact tracing in Special Called Meeting…Catawba County reports 29 COVID deaths in 7 days…Caldwell ambulance involved in Wednesday crash…Taylorsville man charged with assaulting Police Officer…Woman jailed in Alexander County…Armed robberies under investigation in Long View
Weather: Are you ready for some rain ?
Sports: Cougar Men and Women in Conference Semi-Finals today…Tar Heels lay an egg…Larson wins Pole for Daytona 500, twin qualifying races tonight…Canada beats USA for Gold in Women’s Hockey…LRU Baseball off to 9-1 start !
Happy Birthday: Jim Brown, Rene Russo, Lou Diamond Phillips, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Jordan, Denise Richards, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paris Hilton, Ed Sheeran
Strange beast found wandering streets of Raleigh https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/02/16/white-nosed-coatimundi-Raleigh-North-Carolina/5741645031296/
Sharon Stone still has the “Basic Instinct” dress https://pagesix.com/2022/02/16/sharon-stone-kept-her-white-dress-from-basic-instinct/
Quote of the Day: “Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss”…Hal Holbrook (Born this day in 1925)