Tuesday, December 3rd. 22 Shopping Days till Christmas
It’s The National Day of Giving
1800: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show
1931: Alka Seltzer is marketed for the first time. Plop-Plop-Fizz-Fizz !
1950: Paul Harvey begins his daily Radio Broadcast. He would remain on the air until 2008
1968: The rules committee of Major League Baseball announced that in 1969 the pitcher’s mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches
1993: Britain’s Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her public appearances because she was tired of the media’s intrusions into her life
1994: Sony introduced the first Play Station
1997: Representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, China, and Russia do not sign the treaty
In the News: Alexander County Schools out of session today due to ice…County Schools need bus drivers…Pennell tabbed as County Commission Chairman and Yoder picked as vice-chair…150 new jobs coming to N Wilkesboro…Taylorsville man is arrested overnight…Hiddenite man held without bond in Catawba County…Alabama man arrested on fugitive warrant in Catawba County
Weather: Overnight flurries turn to Sunshine today. High in low 40’s. Watch out for Black Ice this morning !
Sports: AC Wrestling hosts St Stephens and Wilkes Central tonight…Cougar Hopps at Statesville…Hickory WR heading to Duke…App State pulls plug on Clark…ACC reprimands UNC, NC State, Va and Va Tech for scuffles this past weekend…Denver beats Cleveland…ACC/Big 10 Challenge tips tonight
Daryl Hanna
Photo: UPI
People on Weight-Loss drugs losing taste for alcohol https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/02/nx-s1-5205478/alcohol-weight-loss-medication-ozempic-wegovy
Word of the Day: [ her-i-tik] heretic: Anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle. A professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. A skeptic, a dissenter. “Galileo was condemned as a heretic for supporting Copernicus’s thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa.”
Quote of the Day: “We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances”… Andy Williams (Born this day in 1927)