Wednesday, January 28th
It’s Blueberry Pancake Day, Kazoo Day, Daisy Day
Happy Lego Day ! Have ever stepped on one of those while barefoot ? It smarts !
1807: London’s Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight
1902: The Carnegie Institution was established in Washington, DC. It began with a gift of $10 million from Andrew Carnegie
1915: The Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress
1922: The National Football League franchise in Decatur, IL, transferred to Chicago. The team took the name Chicago Bears
1935: Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion
1977: A blizzard dumps 10 feet of snow in one day in Upstate New York
1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed
1999: Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden’s Volvo AB for $6.45 billion
2024: Environmental protesters throw soup at Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” – protected by glass at the Louvre in Paris
News: Alexander County Offices operating on two-hour delay on Wednesday…County Schools still on Remote Learning…Parks closed until further notice…
Weather:
Sports:
Happy Birthday: Alan Alda, Gregg Popovich, Barbi Benton, Nick Price, Sarah McLachlan, Amy Coney Barrett, Joey Fatone, Nick Carter, Elijah Wood, Katie Nolan
Super Bowl teams won’t use 49ers facility https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/super-bowl-bound-patriots-seahawks-143224276.html
Word of the Day: kindred [kin-drid] a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship. Having the same belief, attitude, or feeling. “Although not related by bloodlines they were kindred spirits in almost every way.”
Quote of the Day: “Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.”… Jackson Pollock (Born this day in 1912)