Tuesday. December 10th. Day 345 of 2024
It’s Dewey Decimal Day !
1845: British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires
1884: Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
1901: The first Nobel prizes were awarded
1953: Hugh Hefner published the first “Playboy” magazine
1958: The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707
1990: The Food & Drug Administration approved Norplant, a long-acting contraceptive implant
2009: The film “Avatar” makes it’s World Premiere in London
In the News: Two charged with Iredell County murder dating to 2011…Winston-Salem man nabbed by Taylorsville Police…Statesville woman jailed in Alexander County…Stony Point man arrested this morning…Owner of former popular Hickory restaurant pleads guilty to producing child porn…Chase ends with arrest in Caldwell County
Weather: More Clouds, More Showers with high near 60
Sports: AC Wrestling at Home this evening, Swim Team in action, Hoops at McDowell…Cougar Stadium closed as track project takes over…Belichick on UNC job,”We’ll see”…App intros new Football Coach…Panthers lose RB…Bengals beat Cowboys…Tennessee new #1 in College Hoops…UNC wins NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship for 22nd time
Happy Birthday: Susan Dey, Kenneth Branagh, Nia Peeples, Bobby Flay, Raven-Symoné, Joe Burrow
Tokyo encourages women to work less and have more kids https://www.ibtimes.com/tokyo-adopts-4-day-workweek-encourage-women-have-more-kids-3754389
Word of the Day: proboscis [ proh-bos-is, -kis ] A long flexible snout such as an Elephant’s Trunk. The human nose when prominent. A beak, a honker, snoot or snout. From Latin and Greek. “The comedian often made light of his own proboscis”
Quote of the Day: “Saying nothing… sometimes says the most”… Emily Dickinson (Born this day in 1830)