Wednesday, May 31st. Day 151 of 2023
It’s National Senior Health and Fitness Day and Smile Day too
1775: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina
1889: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
1911: The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1955: The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation “at all deliberate speed”
1977: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed
2003: Eric Rudolph is captured in western North Carolina. He was wanted for a number of terror attacks including the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta
2005: Vanity Fair magazine reveals that former FBI agent Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” He supplied information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate investigation
In the News: Child drown in Caldwell County…Statesville Bank robbed Tuesday morning…Taylorsville woman charged with fraud…Hiddenite woman charged with fraud…Alexander County woman arrested on larceny charge…Taylorsville man taken into custody for assault with a deadly weapon…Wilkes County man charged in Taylorsville…Hudson man arrested after chase
Weather: Some clouds, some Sun. High around 75
Sports: Williamson named new Assistant AD at Alexander Central…NASCAR suspends Elliott…Denver the betting favorite in NBA Finals…Caleb Love lands in Arizona…Tar Heel recruit will enter early…Braves lose again to the lowly A’s…Freddie Freeman is hot…Judge goes long againHappy Birthday: Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Sharon Gless, Tom Berenger, Jim Craig, Lea Thompson, Corey Hart, Brooke Shields, Dave Roberts, Colin Farrell
California might release Manson Family convicted murderer https://www.yahoo.com/news/manson-follower-leslie-van-houten-201409343.html
82-year old Al Pacino to be a dad again ? https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/8247597/al-pacino-expecting-child-girlfriend-noor-alfallah-pregnant/
Word of the Day: ad nauseam [ ad naw-zee-uhm, -am ] To overstate, over-do to a sickening or disgusting degree. Sentence: The idea has been debated ad nauseam.
Quote of the Day: “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that”…Norman Vincent Peale (Born this day in 1898)