Tuesday, January 27th
It’s Holocaust Rememberance Day
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Happy Chocolate Cake Day !
1785: The University of Georgia was founded. “Honker down you hairy Dawgs”
1880: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp
1927: United Independent Broadcasters Inc started a radio network with with 16 stations. The company later became CBS
1945: Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland
1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1973: The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris
1992: Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest
2010: Steve Jobs unveiled the first Apple iPad
News: Alexander County Schools again having remote learning day…County officer and Taylorsville Town Hall closed…
Weather: Frigid start but at least we’ll see some Sunshine
Sports: Cougar Basketball at Hickory scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled…Duke lays the wood to Louisville…#1 Arizona escapes BYE…Hornets face-plant a disinterested Philly team on Monday…Cougar Coach Chris Marshall releases 2026 Football Schedule…NC State and UNC will open seasons overseas this Fall
Happy Birthday: Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Cris Collinsworth, Keith Olbermann, Bridget Fonda, Alan Cumming, Rosamand Pike
Florida woman charged with assault by Pork Chop https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/pork-chop-battery-850297
Word of the Day: Huron [hyoor-uhn] A member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron. Language of the Huron tribe. Lake, a lake between the U.S. and Canada: second largest of the Great Lakes. City in South Dakota.
Quote of the Day: “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” … Plato