Thursday, December 21st. Day 355 of 2023.
It’s the First Day of Winter !
Happy Short Girl Appreciation Day ! I never look down on them. Short Girls Rock !
1620: The “Mayflower”, and its pilgrims from England land at Plymouth Rock, MA
1898: Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium
1937: Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature . The movie was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
1951: Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from Baseball
1978: Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
1988: 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack
1995: The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control
In the News: Alexander County man arrested for possession of child pornography…Hiddenite man arrested on drug trafficking warrants… Hickory man nabbed in Alexander County…Hiddenite man gets 10 days in jail…Iredell Memorial Hospital restricting visitors
Weather: Partly Cloudy and 54 today
Sports: A Holiday pause for Cougar Athletics…Tar Heels, Blue Devils and Wolfpack get hoop wins…Hornets lose of course…Saints at Rams tonight…UNC’s Mack Brown Calls NC State’s Dave Doeren “Classless”
Happy Birthday: Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evert, Ray Romano, Andy Dick, Kiefer Sutherland, Karrie Webb
Google is shelling out a chunk, maybe to you https://www.yahoo.com/news/102-million-people-eligible-googles-002049644.html
AP’s Most Joyous Moments of 2023 https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eclipse-positive-stories-2023-f90116512ed7c9f776da4e3b8ae194c5
Word of the Day: gout [ gout ] An acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
Quote of the Day: “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere”… Dr. Seuss