It is Tuesday MAY 26th, Let’s start the podcast!
• 1896: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94
• 1969: Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
• 1977: George H. Willig scaled the outside of the south tower of New York’s World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building.
• 1978: The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• 1994: Singer Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. They were divorced 19 months later.
• 1998: The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island — historic gateway for millions of immigrants — is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
• 2004: Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. He later received 161 consecutive life sentences.
• 2009: President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.
• 2015: Hackers stole personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Chardonnay Day
• Blueberry Cheesecake Day
• Cherry Dessert Day
• Dracula Day
• Paper Airplane Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
8: Seconds it took to bring down the bombed-out federal building in Oklahoma City on May 23, 1995.
NEWS
- Elon Musk and Grimes have slightly altered their new baby’s name. It now includes roman numerals. The new streaming service HBO Max debuts Wednesday.
- New Zealand’s prime minister was in the middle of a TV interview when her country experienced a minor earthquake.
- The tallest man in the country is 7-foot-eight-inches.
- Like presidents before him, Donald Trump attended a Memorial Day ceremony and relaxed with some golf.
- In a survey, 70% of us would rather watch movies at home than in the theater after the pandemic.
- A survey finds a third of husbands check with their wives before touching the thermostat.
Three in 10 adults have been ‘food shamed’ due to their dietary requirements or preferences. And of those 30 percent of adults, about a third have been accused of lying about their special dietary needs.
The cold storage stockpile of American and total natural cheeses rose 8 percent in April, the biggest single monthly gain since 2012. There are now 1.5 billion pounds of cheese in cold storage, the highest level on record since the USDA first decided to start asking around about cheese in 1917.
Consumers have said they’re fatigued — actually, plain sick and tired — of doom and gloom forecasts and negative pandemic-related news. What they want to hear now, particularly from advertisers, are “hopeful, comforting and supportive” messages.
Water Cooler Question
Before making it in show business, Sandra Bullock, Russell Crowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart and Bruce Willis all worked as what? (Bartenders)
