Wednesday, February 7th. Day 38 of 2024
It’s Ballet Day and Rose Day
Happy Girls and Women in Sports Day !
It’s Wave All Your Fingers at Your Neighbors Day! Instead of getting…or giving… that one-fingered wave, open that hand and wiggle all your fingers as you wave . It takes on an entirely new meaning
1900: A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague. It begins the first plague epidemic in US history
1904: A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland. Over 1,500 buildings are destroyed in 30 hours
1962: The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports
1964: The Beatles arrive in America to begin their first tour
1974: The movie “Blazing Saddles” premieres
1990: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. The move dissolves the former Soviet Union
1995: Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan
2013: Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery
2016: The Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, 24–10 in the Super Bowl. Von Miller named MVP
In the News: Alexander County School Board to hold Special Called Meeting today…County Commissioners approve bids for Bethlehem Park Project…Alexander EMS responded to more than 8,200 calls in 2023…Stony Point facing Georgia Rape charge returned to jail…Statesville man arrested in Alexander County…Hickory woman sentenced to prison
Weather: Sunny with a high of 57
Sports: Cougar women hand Watauga first league loss…Freedom gets new Football Coach…Tigers tame the Tar Heels…Wake bakes Tech…Canes lose on home ice…Winning streak over for Oilers…Las Vegas Mayor says maybe the A’s should stay in Oakland
Happy Birthday: Gay Telese, James Spader, Garth Brooks, Chris Rock, Steve Nash, Ashton Kutcher, Mathew Stafford
A record Goldfish https://news.yahoo.com/monster-caught-suburban-lake-shatters-165805264.html
Not your Garden Variety Volleyball match https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051969/Outrage-FIVE-transgender-students-dominate-volleyball-court-womens-college-varsity-game-biological-females-kicked-bench.html
Word of the Day: algorithm [ al-guh-rith-uhm ] Mathematics. a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps. Computers. an ordered set of instructions recursively applied to transform data input into processed data output, such as a mathematical solution, search engine result, descriptive statistics, or predictive text suggestions. Greek term related to mathematics.
Quote of the Day: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”… Charles Dickens (Born this day in 1812)