Wednesday, February 28th. Day 59 of 2024
It’s Tooth Fairy Day. How much is a tooth worth today ?
1854: The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin
1885: AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated
1940: The first televised basketball game is shown. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square Garden in New York
1953: In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
1983: The Final episode of M*A*S*H aired on CBS. It drew 106 million viewers
1993: Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, Texas. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
2001: The Northwest region of the U.S., including the state of Washington, was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale
2013: Benedict XVI resigned as pope. He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to resign voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294
In the News: More than 1,800 Alexander County voter have cast an early ballot…Taylorsville Restaurant evacuated after threat on Tuesday…Alexander County man arrested after vehicle pursuit overnight…Hickory teen charged after chase…Taylorsville man facing felony drug charge…Stony Point man arrested on weapons offense
Weather: Wind and Rain. Maybe a Boomer !
Sports: AC Women win first round playoff game…Cougar Baseball drops opener…Cougar Women Soccer blasts North Wilkes…Wake Forest and NC State suffer bad losses…Hornets mauled…NFL GM’s and scout all at combine in Indy
Happy Birthday: Bernadette Peters, Ricky Steamboat, John Turturro, Cindy Wilson, Robert Sean Leonard, Pat Monahan, Eric Lindros, Luka Dončić
The happiest City in America is https://ktla.com/news/california/which-california-city-was-named-americas-happiest-in-new-study/
Catching up with Monica Lewinsky https://www.yahoo.com/news/monica-lewinsky-makes-modelling-debut-193624520.html
Word of the Day: vestibule [ ves-tuh-byool ] A passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building. Railroads. an enclosed space at the end of a passenger car, serving as a sheltered entrance to the car from another car or from outside the train. Anatomy, Zoology. Any of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another cavity or space, as that of the internal ear.
Quote of the Day: “If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it”… Andy Rooney