Tuesday, November 22nd. Day 326 of 2022
1718: English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. “Blackbeard”) was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers shot and stabbed more than 25 times
1899: The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated
1910: Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft for golf clubs. It changed the game
1950: The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18
1963: President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Governor John Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President
1977: Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York and Europe
1986: At the age of 20, Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown
1998: CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder
In the News: Sharpe name Parade Grand Marshall….Alexander County Board of Education meets this afternoon…Winston Salem man nabbed by Taylorsville Police…Taylorsville woman held in jail…Hickory man charged with murder…Authorities searching for Marion murder suspect…Lenoir man arrested for selling drugs on or near playground
Weather: Sunny Getting Warmer !
Sports: Four enshrined in Alexander County Sports Hall of Fame…US has draw with Wales in World Cup…Panther coach mum on starting qb…49ers slay the Cardinals in Mexico…Va-Va Tech game scrapped…Tennessee qb out of year…Canes lose on road
Happy Birthday: Billie Jean King, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Boris Becker, Scarlett Johansson
Humans living on the Moon ? It might happen within the next 10 years https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63688229
It’s cold down there https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/20/south-pole-hits-record-cold-november-temperatures/
Quote of the Day: “I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender”…Rodney Dangerfield (Born this day in 1921)