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…Alexander County Courts resume operations today…Wilkes County man rescued after falling down icy embankment…Taylorsville man arrested overnight…Conover woman jailed on Alexander County drug charge…Alexander County woman arrested this morning
Weather: Clouds turn to Sunshine. High this afternoon around 40
Sports: Cougar basketball games at Hickory cancelled…Wolfpack slam Syracuse…Wake Forest falls in overtime…Buffalo goes with Joe Brady as new coach…New Steelers coach says he’s like for AR to return…The “Hoodie” denied first ballot Hall of Fame
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)