Wednesday, August 6th. Day 218 of 2025
It’s Fresh Breath Day
1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair
1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel
1945: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
1962: Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1965: The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Johnson
1996: NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil
1998: Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury
2012: NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
In the News: Hicks named new Alexander County Fire Marshall…Feimster announced as new County Elections Director…County Commissioners honor Sharpe and McKinmney…Stony Point man has bond increased to nearly $1.5 million with additional child-sex related charges…Bethlehem man detained…Wilkes teen killed in crash
Weather; More Clouds, more showers
Sports: Alexander Central Fall Athletes working at fever pitch as they prepare for season…ESPN and NFL Network announce mega-deal…Panthers get big day from rookie…Red Sox on Rampage…Yanks sinking…
Happy Birthday: Catherine Hicks, Bob Horner, David Robinson, Mike Greenberg, M. Night Shyamalan, Geri Halliwell, Soleil Moon Frye
It might sound a little grizzly but it makes sense https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1JUyYS
Word of the Day: fusty [fuhs-tee] having a stale smell; moldy; musty. Old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like. Stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned . Term is used in the UK. From the Middle English noun foist, meaning “wine cask,” which in turn traces back to the Medieval Latin word fustis, meaning “tree trunk” or “wood. “It was impossible to enter the fusty attic without sneezing.”
Dr. Bill Griffin
Quote of the Day: “If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.”… J. Robert Oppenheimer