Wednesday, March 6th. Day 66 of 2024
Happy Oreo Cookie Day !
It’s Dentist’s Day. Too much of the former and you’ll be visiting one
1820: The Missouri Compromise was enacted by Congress. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory
1836: The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers
1899: Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser
1946: Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state
1960: The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam
1981: Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of “CBS Evening News”
1992: The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984
Jeff Bezos
In the News: Republican Commission incumbents will return to ballot in November…17 citizens give input to search group for new Alexander County School Superintendent…15-year old struck and killed by truck in Catawba County…Hiddenite man jailed…Granite Falls man arrested in Alexander County…Two Taylorsville women arrested after tussle in WalMart parking lot…Statewide Tornado Drill at 9:30 this morning
Weather: Rain for sure today
Sports: AC Women fall at Lake Norman…Alexander Central Softball wins on the road…Cougar Baseball drops game at Foard…ACHS Men’s Tennis gets win…Heels clinch tie for regular season title in ACC…What the heck has happened to Wake Forest?…Panthers “franchise tag” Burns and release Hurst…WalMart Shoppers (not me) get ready for prices to soar because the Walton Family owns the Denver Broncos. They have to get that $85 million back they ate by cutting Russell Wilson
Happy Birthday: Alan Greenspan, Ivan Boesky, Valentina Tereshkova, David Gilmour, Rob Reiner, D. L. Hughley, Shaquille O’Neal
That burger is going to cost a lot more https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-01/u-s-beef-prices-are-set-to-rise-further-as-ranchers-costs-soar
Word of the Day: seersucker [ seer-suhk-er ] A plainwoven cotton, rayon, or linen fabric: traditionally a striped cotton with alternate stripes crinkled in the weaving process. Sentence- “Andy Griffith always wore a seersucker suit on the series Matlock”
Quote of the Day: “They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square: Willie Stargell (Born this day in 1940)