Fire broke out around 4 am this morning on Burro Street, the main business district in Cloudcroft. Heavy smoke slowed traffic on Highway 82. Crews spent hours throughout the morning to get the blaze under control.
Today is Count the La's in "Deck the Halls" Day, so you can tell everybody you know how many la's there are. Be careful: don't count the fa's.
Today is also New Calendar Day, time to pick up the 2011 model.
History 101: US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz jointly set off an explosion 46 years ago today changing the course of the Rio Grande River, reshaping the border between the countries and resolving a century-old dispute.
Music History 101: December 13th, 1974: This singer became the first British rock artist invited to the White House. He had lunch with President Gerald Ford. – George Harrison.
The 101 number one song of the day took the roundabout way to the top of the charts. It was part of an album released in 1967. It didn’t get to number one until more than three years later. Stevie Wonder wrote the original version with Henry Cosby but both were unhappy with the lyrics they wrote for it so they asked William Robinson if he could come up with a new set of lyrics. He did and it was included as one of the tracks on an album entitled “Make it Happen.” Later, in 1970 British Motown executive John Marshall was looking for a single to be released in England and came across this track. To everyone’s amazement it went to number one. It was decided then to release it in the states and it became the first number one hit for a group that had been together since 1954. It was there December 13, 1970 for William Robinson who was better known to the world as “Smokey” (The Tears of a Clown)
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