Tuesday, June 23rd. Day 174 of 2026
It’s Typewriter Day. Odds are, you don’t still have one
Happy Detroit Style Pizza Day and National Let it Go Day !
1860: Congress established the Government Printing Office
1917: In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire
1926: The College Board administers the first SAT exam
1960: The “Pill” is born. The Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill
1965: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles released “Tracks of my Tears”
1979: The Charlie Daniels Band releases “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
2016: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union
2025: Iran launches missiles at US military base in Qatar and Iraq
News: Storms rattle the area overnight…Former Taylorsville resident dies as result of Wilkes County Shooting…Former Wilkes County Pastor arrested on child-sex offenses…Taylorsville couple busted on felony drug charges overnight…Highway Patrol investigating head-on crash that was reported Sunday morning in Alexander County…Some more Bear sightings
Weather: We Clear. Sunny and 85
Sports: Brzykcy gets re-call to the Majors…Tar Heels get destroyed…Braves shut-out…Mega trade in front of tonight’s NBA Draft…East Burke Football Coach leaves for East Rutherford
Happy Birthday: Diana Trask, Ted Shackelford, Clarence Thomas, Randy Jackson, Frances McDormand, Selma Blair, KT Tunstall, LaDainian Tomlinson, Duffy
An utterly disgusting story but it should be told https://www.wral.com/news/local/fayetteville-mother-charged-after-crash-killed-children-june-2026/
Word of the Day: soliloquy [suh-lil-uh-kwee] the act of speaking alone or to oneself often in a theatrical sense, a poem, discourse, or utterance of a character in a drama. Soliloquy is from the Latin solus “alone” . The most famous soliloquy in theater is perhaps the one from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which begins “To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
Quote of the Day: “Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.”… June Carter Cash (Born this day in 1929)