Tuesday, August 4th. Day 216 of 2026
It’s Coast Guard Day and White Wine Day
Happy Chocolate Chip Cookie Day !
1821: The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper
1944: A Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others
1964: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. Eventually a number of Mississippi Klan members are convicted in connection with the deaths
1985: Tom Seaver, pitching for the Chicago White Sox gets his 300th Major League win
1987: The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”
1997: Teamsters began a 15-day strike against UPS
2009: North Korea released two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry earlier in the year
News: Father and son from Lenoir drown off NC coast…Alexander County Board of Education meets this morning…Stony Point man arrested for violation of registered sex-offender status…Taylorsville man in prison after having probation revoked…Hiddenite man arrested last week on felony drug charges has bond set at $500,000…Alexander County woman sent to slammer for appearing in court while impaired
Weather: Clouds, Showers, Storms and Humidity today
Sports: Cougar Football Coach Chris Marshall ‘We’re getting at it”…LR Football picked for third by league coaches…Frantic frenzy on Baseball’s Trade Deadline Day…
Happy Birthday: John Riggins, Billy Bob Thornton, Barack Hussein Obama, Roger Clemens, Bret Baier, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Meghan the Duchess of Sussex
Marijuana use is rampant https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/mindandbody/ar-AA29kvQd
Word of the Day: theocracy [thee-ok-ruh-see] form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. From Greek. “Iran is considered a theocracy where clergy exercise political power and in which religious law is dominant over civil law.”
Quote of the Day: “ I would make Taco Tuesday the law.”…George Lopez
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