Wednesday, October 14th. Day 287 of 2026
It’s Be Bald and be Free Day and Take your Parents to Lunch Day
1912: Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee. Roosevelt’s wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. The shooter, William Schrenk was captured at the scene
1926: The book “Winnie-the-Pooh,” by A.A. Milne was published
1943: The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company
1947: Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba
1987: Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland Texas. The rescue took 58 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_McClure
1998: After being captured in North Carolina, Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta
2012: Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere
2020: A copy of William Shakespeare’s first folio sells for $9.98 million at auction in New York
News: Hiddenite man charged with murder of grandmother…Taylorsville man busted for trafficking meth…Burke County man charged with concealment of death…Train derailment in Morganton
Weather: Sunny and 85
Sports: East wins Apple Bowl…ACHS Volleyball to play for Conference Tournament Title today…Pennell named Taylorsville Saving Bank=B86 Cougar of the Week…Rays win and pull even in ALCS. Dodgers in 2-0 hole host Brewers tonight…Canes win but they’ve lost the Captain for a while
Happy Birthday: Ralph Lauren, John Dean, Justin Hayward, Arleen Sorkin, Joe Girardi, Stephen A Smith, Floyd Landis, Usher, Jared Goff
Alexander County Superintendent of Schools Dr Bill Griffin drops by after the 7:30 news
Word of the Day: gambit [gam-bit] any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage, remark made to open or redirect a conversation, In Chess, an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece. A gambit is a strategic move, often in chess but also in politics or business, where a player sacrifices something up front for future gain. The noun gambit comes from an Italian word, gambetto, which means “tripping up.”
Quote of the Day: “When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.”…Charlie Kirk (Born this day in 1993)