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GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure remains in place over the Southeast through today. A cold front approaches from the northwest tonight, tracking across the region Monday into Monday night before stalling south of the western Carolinas Tuesday. This front will remain stalled out along the Coastal Carolinas into much of next week keeping shower and thunderstorm chances around.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 4am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the northeast.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a chance of showers between 8pm and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A slight chance of showers between noon and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 4am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds early in the evening increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Monday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 4am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the north.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 5am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northeast 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a chance of showers between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
A line of thunderstorms may cross the region later tonight. Reduced air quality due to drift smoke from the wildfires in the central USA may be a problem for those with breathing issues this morning and afternoon.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun Jun 26 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Tropical Atlantic:
Shower and thunderstorm activity has increased in association with a tropical wave over the central tropical Atlantic. Environmental conditions appear conducive for further development, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the early to middle part of this week. This system is forecast to move westward at 15 to 20 mph over the tropical Atlantic, approach the Windward Islands on Tuesday, and move across the southeastern Caribbean Sea on Wednesday and Thursday. Interests in the Windward Islands should monitor the progress of this system.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
2. Northern Gulf of Mexico:
An area of cloudiness and thunderstorms extending from southeastern Louisiana across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and the Florida peninsula is associated with a trough of low pressure. Slow development of this system could occur as it drifts westward across the northern Gulf of Mexico over the next few days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Surface smoke may be a problem for people with breating issues today. There may be drift smoke from wildfires in the central portion of the country crossing our region today and over the next several days.
Air quality is in theupper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range 2.1 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for June 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
ighest Temperature 94°F in Franklin in 1952
Lowest Temperature 41°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 2.19 inches in Highlands in 1960
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of June
Data available from 1873 to 2018
Highest Temperature 99°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1873
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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Macon Calendar
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Local and State News
• NC legislators want 20-week abortion ban to be restored [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
NC lawmakers on what's next for abortion | WXII-TV (Winston-Salem, NC)
• How the Senate’s bipartisan gun bill would affect firearm buyers and sellers in NC [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Anglers can fish free of license in NC on July 4th [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Two held without bond in alleged mass shooting threat [Smoky Mountain News]
• Nature Journal: Great crested flycatchers return after being absent for many years [Asheville Citizen Times]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(Longer videos are in the Russo-Ukraine Videos section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 25 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for June 24th]
*Reportedly* one of the first victims of US-supplied Ukrainian M142 HIMARS MRLs, a Russian base in Donbas after being struck by HIMARS’s guided rockets.#Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3v8A7SsfVk
— BlueSauron👁️ (@Blue_Sauron) June 25, 2022
• Blockade of Kaliningrad: Lukashenko says Lithuania has declared war on Russia [Yahoo! News]
• Russia’s republics, bled dry by Putin, begin to demand independence from his rule [iNews UK]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 98-107)
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 98-107. The first week & a half of June has seen the Russo-Ukrainian War escalate into a deadly attritional phase dominated by artillery duels and positional battles with little major change in the forward edge of the battle area. #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/ewY3MyZVXp
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) June 11, 2022
• What would a 'Marshall Plan' for Ukraine entail? [DW News]
• Moscow to send Belarus nuclear-capable missiles within months [France 24]
• Severodonetsk: Russia has full control of eastern city, Ukraine says [BBC News]
• Fall of Severodonetsk is Russia’s biggest victory since Mariupol [Al JazeeraE]
• Outgunned Ukrainian Forces Work to Avoid Becoming Surrounded in Donbas [Wall Street Journal]
• Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say [New York Times]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Putin disagrees with Lukashenko on nuclear NATO issue [Russia Today]
• Russian Armed Forces block Lisichansk from the south, take hundreds captive [Pravda ]
• Russia to supply Iskander-M missile systems to Belarus in coming months - Putin [TASS Russian News Agency]
Chechen troops liberate Donbass civilians in Severodonetsk | Itapirkanmaa2
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Abortion foes, supporters map next moves after Roe reversal [AP News]
• US solider pleads guilty to plotting rampage with neo-Nazi occultists [Courthouse News Service]
What's behind the recent ethnic violence in Ethiopia? | Inside Story
• Migrant caravan in south Mexico demands corridor to border [Yahoo! News]
• Norway on highest terror alert after two killed in mass shootings [The Guardian]
• China to provide $7.5 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan: Foreign ministry [Alarabia News]
• Tear gas used to disperse protesters outside Arizona Capitol building, officials say [CNN]
• Ghislaine Maxwell put on suicide watch, may seek sentencing delay, lawyer says [Reuters]
Global National: June 25, 2022 | States move quickly to ban abortion after Roe v. Wade decision
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 25th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode June 25th, 2022
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 6:43pm CEST, 23 June 2022, there have been 539,119,771 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,322,311 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 21 June 2022, a total of 11,912,594,538 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:43pm CEST, 23 June 2022, there have been 85,542,508 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,004,390 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 17 June 2022, a total of 584,348,681 vaccine doses have been administered.
• TWiV 912: COVID-19 clinical update #120 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS [Microbe TV]
• Age and sex-specific risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines [Nature]
• The global impact of disproportionate vaccination coverage on COVID-19 mortality [The Lancet Infectious Diseases]
• COVID-19 vaccines saved 20M lives in 1st year, scientists say [CTV News]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• NASA Forced To Scrap Planned 2022 Launch of Psyche Asteroid Mission [SciTechDaily]
• An Intro to Zero Trust Architecture [SHacker Noon]
• Network Infrastructure Security Guide [National Security Agency (PDF)]
• Yes, there are 100 million rogue black holes wandering our galaxy [Mashable]
• Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada [BBC News]
• An electric Mercedes-Benz drove 747 miles without recharging, nearly twice the range of Tesla's Model S [Yahoo! News]
• Mars Express Orbiter Still Runs Windows 98 But Fear Not An Upgrade Is Incoming [Hot Hardware]
• Raytheon, Northrop advance in competition to develop hypersonic weapons interceptor [Defense News]
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
SpaceX Starship Booster Rolls in for Static Fire Campaign, SLS Go for Artemis 1 launch | Marcus House
203: Linus Torvalds at Open Source Summit, Manjaro 21.3, AMD, Steam Summer Sale and more Linux news | This Week in LInux
SpaceX's Supersized Starship Rocket and the Future of Galactic Exploration | Jennifer Heldmann | TED
Mind Blowing Galactic Map of The Milky Way Is Now Available: 40,000 Light Years Across | Anton Petrov
Foundation of Carthage - Ancient Civilizations | KIngs and Generals
TWiV 912: COVID-19 clinical update #120 with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS
🔴 Perpetual motion TIME CRYSTALS what? | [OFFICE HOURS] Podcast 093
Booster 7 Igniters Tested | Starbase SpaceX
Plenty of Activity to Monitor in the Tropics This Weekend - June 25, 2022 | HurricaneTrack
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> World at War | Episode 8: Russia captures Severodonetsk from Ukraine
Ukraine-Russia: A prolonged propaganda war | The Listening Post
Ukraine abandons Sievierodonetsk: What did Russia gain? | Ukraine Update
Inside the secret training bases for foreign soldiers fighting for Ukraine | BBC News
Ukraine forces to retreat from embattled Severodonetsk: Governor | Al Jazeera
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
June 26th is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 188 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
4 AD – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• [Wiki Bio: Augustus]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Tiberius]
• [Wikipedia: Principate]
221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• [Wikipedia: Elagabalus]
• [Severus Alexander]
363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
• [Killing Julian: the Death of an Emperor and the Religious History of the Later Roman Empire] (PDF, 171 pages)
• [Wikipedia: Julian (emperor)]
• [Epimetheus: The Rise and Fall of the Sassanid Persian Empire]
• [Wikipedia: Sasanian Empire]
• [Julian: Rise of the Last Pagan Emperor of Rome]
684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen.
699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• [Wikipedia: Shugendō]
• [Wikipedia Bio: En no Gyōja]
1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Köse Dağ]
1284 - According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
• [Pied Piper of Hamelin]
• [Exodus or Exitus? What happened to the Children of Hamelin?]
1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Rhodes (1522)]
• [Kings and Generals: Siege of Rhodes 1522 - Ottoman Wars]
• [Siege of Rhodes 1522] (Empires of the Sea: The Contest for the Center of the World By Roger Crowley)
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Fort Mose]
• [Florida Frontiers TV - Episode 9 - Fort Mose]
• [The War of Jenkin's Ear and King George's War, 1739 - 1748]
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Fleurus (1794)]
1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1842 - Ellen G. White is baptized by John Hobart in Portland, Maine
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_G._White]
• [The Writings of Ellen G White]
1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Nanking]
• [HistoryPod Video About Treaty Signing and Background]
• [Wikipedia: First Opium War]
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• [Henri Moissan: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1906]
1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• [The Science Museum Website]
• [Science Museum, London]
• [Science Museum, London | Walkthrough Tour July 2019 | 4k]
1917 – World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
• [American Expeditionary Forces arriving in France, during World War I HD Stock Footage] (Silent Newsreel)
• [US Troops Enter WW1 | Timewatch | BBC Studios]
• [World War I: The American Legacy]
• [The Songs of World War I]
1918 – World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Belleau Wood]
• ["Over There! Part 3: Retreat, Hell! We Just Got Here!" U.S. Marines At Belleau Wood]
1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• [Wikipedia: Federal Credit Union Act]
• [MyCreditUnion.gov]
• [12 USC Ch. 14: FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONS]
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• [Wikipedia: Focke-Wulf Fw 61]
• [Silent Newsreel Footage]
• [Focke Wulf Fw 61 - luftwaffe test pilot Hanna Reitsch]
1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• [Wikipedia Grumman F6F Hellcat]
• [Wings - Grumman F6F Hellcat]
• [LINKTEXT]
1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Osuchy]
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
• [Newsreel]
• [Wikipedia: Charter of the United Nations]
1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
• [DoD: The Berlin Airlift: What It Was, Its Importance in the Cold War]
• [Harry S Truman Library: The Blockade of Berlin]
• [Assn for Diplomatic Studies and Training: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift of 1948]
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• [Engineering and Technology Wiki: Wlliam Shockley]
• [Does the first transistor ever built still work?]
• [Documentary: Transistorized!]
1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• [Wikipedia: Lavrentiy Beria]
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• [Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter]
1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• [John F. Kennedy - "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" Speech]
• [Wikipedia: Ich bin ein Berliner]
• [C-SPAN Reel America: President Kennedy in Berlin, 1963]
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
• [HistoryPod Video ]
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• [American Indian Movement]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Leonard Peltier]
• [Tactical Wire: The Pine Ridge Shootout]
• [Wikipedia: Murder on a Reservation]
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
• [Elvis Presley 1977 CBS last concert]
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• [Yugoslavia War : Slovenia 21.6.1991]
• [Slovenian Ten-Day War: The Forgotten Balkan War]
• [News June 29, 1991 - Ten Day War in Yugoslavia/Slovenia]
• [Ten-Day War]
1993 - The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
• [Wikipedia: 1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq]
• [Clinton Orders Missile Attack (1993)]
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union]
• [Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union]
• [JUSTIA: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)]
2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
• [LINKTEXT]
• [Official Website]
• [The Human Genome Project: The 13-Year Quest to Chart the Mysteries of Human Genetics]
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• [Wikipedia: Lawrence v. Texas]
• [JUSTIA: Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)]
• [Lawrence v. Texas Summary | quimbee.com]
2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
• [Wikipedia: Waldo Canyon Fire]
• [NASA Earth Observatory: Waldo Canyon Fire Burn Scar]
• [PPLDTV In Our Own Backyard: Reflections on the Waldo Canyon Fire]
2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Defense of Marriage Act]
• [Wikipedia: United States v. Windsor]
• [JUSTIA: United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013)]
• [United States v. Windsor Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained]
2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Obergefell v. Hodges]
• [JUSTIA: Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWSvCNBZxY]
2016 - Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
• [Overview of the new Panama Canal expansion]
2018 - US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
• [Wikipedia: Trump v. Hawaii]
• [JUSTIA: Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)]
• [Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban]
2018 - Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
• [Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back]
• [WHO: Reaching the Hagahai in Papua New Guinea]
• [AFP: Papua New Guinea scrambles to vaccinate as polio returns]
• [Papua New Guinea: Polio Outbreak - Jun 2018]
2020 - New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
• [New York Times]
• [Wikipedia: Russian bounty program]
• [Fox News: Russian bounties may have led to deaths of three marines]
• [NBC News: Joe Biden Responds To Report Of Russian Bounties On U.S. Troops]
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, June 26, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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