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Richard C Gilbert’s Tuesday Blog

March 28, 2023 By Richard C. Gilbert

Tuesday, March 28th. Day 88 of 2023

1885: The Salvation Army was officially organized in the United States

1963: New York Titans of the American Football League changed their name to the Jets

1971: The last Ed Sullivan Show airs on CBS

1977: Rocky was named Best Picture at the Oscars

1979: A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown

1990: President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

2020: President Donald Trump makes grim projection that 240,000 American could die from COVID-19, even with restrictions in place

In the News: Logging truck overturns west of Taylorsville, 1 airlifted, another transported…Highway 127 Widening project Public Meeting today in Bethlehem…Some Dumb Crook News from Taylorsville Police…Iredell substitute teacher arrested on campus…Big drug bust on Interstate 77 in Iredell County…Burke County Deputies find suspect hiding in hole…Lenoir man charged with felony child-sex crime

Weather: More clouds than Sun, not as warm today

Sports: Lady Cougar Soccer wins again…Very busy day for ACHS Athletics…Women’s Final Four is set…Love is leaving Chapel Hill…Report says Panther won’t trade #1 Draft Pick they traded to get…Baseball season is two days away

Happy Birthday: Rick Barry, Dianne Wiest, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn, Kate Gosselin, Julia Stiles, Lady Gaga

Former Channel 9 anchor dies https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/former-wsoc-anchor-dies-after-battle-with-alzheimers-disease/66NTQDIEBJGQVNOD44OVFTTU24/

Word of the Day: scintilla [ sin-til-uh ]  A minute particle , a trace. In Latin, scintilla means “spark.”

Quote of the Day: “Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose”…Nelson Algren (Born this day in 1908)

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