Wednesday, July 24th. Day 206 of 2024
It’s Tequila Day and Cousins Day
Happy Drive-Thru Day ! Be nice to the people in the drive-thru. Without them, you’d have to go in !
1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah
1866: Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the not-so Civil War
1921: Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
1965: President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after historic Moon mission
1974: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor
George Brett Objects…emphatically !
1988: Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial
In the News: Another candidate will be on the ballot for Alexander County Commissioner in November…Alexander County Deputies snare a pair of suspected drug traffickers…Taylorsville man jailed for missing court dates…Stony Point man jailed again…Granite Falls man gets Federal Prison time for fraud
Weather: More clouds, More Sticky, More Rain. Bring on October !
Sports: Rising sophomore Hamby keeps piling up Softball honors…Looking less likely that new turf will be ready in time at ACHS…Crawdads to join Carolina League…Panther Camp begins today in Charlotte…App State picked to win Division…Braves Rained out, they’ll play two today…Skeens loses for first time…Walk Aaron Judge and you win
Jennifer Lopez
Whale capsizes boat off coast of New Hampshire. Check out the wild video https://www.wcvb.com/article/boat-whale-rye-nh-capsized-video/61678814
Things like this can happen when your pants are too tight https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/singer-yellowstone-star-lainey-wilson-002503443.html
Word of the Day: imbibe [ im-bahyb ] To consume by drinking. To absorb or soak-up liquid. To take or receive into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like. “The old friends would gather now and then and exchange laughs and imbibe spirits.”
Quote of the Day: “All generalizations are dangerous, even this one” … Alexandre Dumas (Born this day in 1802)