Tuesday, October 29. Day 303 of 2024
It’s Oatmeal Day , National Cat Day and World Psoriasis Day
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I
1929: America’s Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market
1945: The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each
1969: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation
1998: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. He was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962
2008: Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five
2012: Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages
In the News: Early Voting in Alexander County nears 11,000…Is Google about to expand Lenoir facility ?…Stony Point man arrested on statutory rape charge…Catawba County man jailed for statutory rape…Alexander County Deputies jail suspect for larceny of motor vehicle…Hiddenite woman detained for misuse of 911
Weather: Sunny and 70
Sports: Cougar Soccer drops match to Watauga….Wike heads into Round II of State Golf Finals…Freddie goes yard again to put Yankees on the brink of sweep…Steelers win in MNF…Canes win in overtime
Happy Birthday: Melba Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Dennis Potvin, Kate Jackson, Dan Castellaneta, Joely Fisher, Winona Ryder, Andy Dalton
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Word of the Day: lampoon [ lam-poon ] A sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc. Verb-to mock or ridicule. “She said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.”
Quote of the Day: “I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked”… Fanny Brice (Born this day in 1891)