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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A cold front will today and into tonight. The front will then stall southeast of the area Tuesday and linger near the coastal Carolinas the remainder of the week, keeping daily shower and thunderstorm chances in the forecast.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. 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 after 4am. Increasing clouds, with lows around 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Calm winds becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 10am and 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the northeast. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. WInds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a chance of showers between 11pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Chance of rain is 50%.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Patchy fog before midmorning.Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 80s. Light winds out of the north. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Increasing clouds, with lows around 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds becoming east southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then a slight chance of showers, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 10am and 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between noon and 4pm. Patchy fog before midmorning.Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Increased chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Central Tropical Atlantic:
Shower and thunderstorm activity has increased in association with a tropical wave located about 950 miles east-southeast of the southern Windward Islands. Environmental conditions appear conducive for further development, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the next couple of days before the system reaches the Windward Islands Tuesday night or possibly while moving westward across the southern Caribbean Sea Wednesday through Friday. A NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system this afternoon. Interests in the Windward Islands and along the northeastern coast of Venezuela should monitor the progress of this system, and tropical storm watches or warnings could be required for portions of these areas later today. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over the Windward Islands and the northeastern coast of Venezuela Tuesday night and Wednesday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
2. Northern Gulf of Mexico:
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the north-central and northeastern Gulf of Mexico are associated with a trough of low pressure. Development of this system is expected to be slow to occur while it moves west-southwestward at about 10 mph toward the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and approaches the coasts of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico during the next few days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
3. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental conditions could become conducive for gradual development later this week while the system moves west-northwestward at around 15 mph over the central tropical Atlantic.
* 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 range 0.5 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for June 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1954
Lowest Temperature 45°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1979
Greatest Rainfall 3.73 inches in Highlands in 1963
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
• 5 North Carolina legislative races to watch after abortion ruling [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Virginia firefighter dies in 'catastrophic accident during rescue course in Macon County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Pig farmer pivots by inviting glampers to the farm [MountainX (Asheville, NC)]
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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 26 [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
Myths and Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons | Perun
Russian missiles rock Ukraine capital Kyiv | DW News
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
• Russian warplanes pound Kyiv after weeks of calm [Al Jazeera]
• Zelensky to address G7 as Russian missiles hit cities [BBC News]
• Ukraine war threatens climate targets [DW News]
• EU officially grants Ukraine and Moldova candidate status to join the bloc [France 24]
• Sanctions Push Russia to First Foreign Default Since Bolshevik Revolution [Wall Street Journal]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Western media celebrate ‘Russian default’ [Russia Today]
• UK to provide Ukraine with higher performance rockets for HIMARS systems [Pravda ]
• Turkey not to join anti-Russian sanctions - presidential spokesman [TASS Russian News Agency]
The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
Chechen troops liberate Donbass civilians in Severodonetsk | Itapirkanmaa2
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• No reruns: Committee tries new approach to break through [Yahoo! News]
• Activists hold 'Abolitionist Pride' march to call for dismantling of police and prisons [CBC]
• G7 aims to raise $600 billion to counter China's Belt and Road [Reuters]
• Rights are on the ballot in November, Biden warns, berating Supreme Court for ruling against abortion [Courthouse News Service]
• How the Roe v. Wade ruling evolved: A behind-the-scenes visual tour [Washington Post]
• A ‘sucker punch’: Some women fear setback to hard-won rights [AP News]
• Trump vs. DeSantis, by the numbers [The Hill]
Global National: June 26, 2022 | Tennessee doctors fear future ahead of abortion trigger ban
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - June 26th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode June 265th, 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.
• Three troubling things scientists just learned about Long Covid [NZ Herald]
• Frequency of Neurological Diseases After COVID-19, Influenza A/B and Bacterial Pneumonia [Frontiers in Neurology]
• 7.5% of American population struggles with long COVID [Aspen Daily News]
• TWiV 912: COVID-19 clinical update #120 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Physicists may have finally spotted elusive clusters of four neutrons [Science News]
• Ads Are Officially Coming to Netflix. Here's What That Means for You [Time Magazine]
• Giant Sunspot AR3038 has Doubled in Size and is Pointed Right at Earth. Could be Auroras Coming [Universe Today]
• First organic bipolar transistor developed [Tech Xplore]
• 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)]
• 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
Flying in a Zero Gravity Aircraft - Why The Pilots 'Follow the Duck' | Scott Manley
Trees of Mystery - Drive Through Tree - Classic Redwood Highway Attractions - Klamath, CA | The Carpetbagger
Looking to Power Surface Exploration on the Moon on This Week @NASA – June 24, 2022
The latest info about Boca, Starship and upcoming static fires and the orbital launch!! | The Angry Astronaut
The Single Celled Dog | SciShow
Mobo Twin Powers, Activate! Checking Out The Supermicro H12SSL-I/H12SSL-NT | Level1Techs
Psychedelic Drone View 🔥 || The Upside Down || Inception || Cinematic Music Video 🔥‼️
Ford Stops Selling Mach-E | Tesla Time News
Raptor Maintenance Platform Spotted Underneath Booster 7 | SpaceX Starbase
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
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)
--> Myths & Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons | Perun
Russian missiles rock Ukraine capital Kyiv | DW News
Zelensky to press G7 for more help as Russia makes headway in Donbas | FRANCE 24 English
G7 leaders discuss new Russian sanctions as missiles hit Kyiv
'Bare-Chested Horseman': G7 leaders mock President Putin | Latest International News | WION
Is Putin winning? Hear secretary of state's response | CNN
Myths & Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons | Perun
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
June 27th is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 187 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)
1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
• [Wikipedia: Republic of Ragusa]
1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
• [Wikipedia: Cornish rebellion of 1497]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Michael An Gof]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Thomas Flamank]
• [The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 - The History of Cornwall]
1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
• [Wikipedia: Stratford Martyrs]
• [The Reason BLOODY Mary Gets Her Name - The Marian Persecutions]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Mary I of England]
1743 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Dettingen]
• [War of the Austrian Succession]
• [The Battle of Dettingen: the story of a cunning plan]
1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
• [Wikipedia: Echoee]
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Cherokee War]
• [Ben Franklin's World: Episode 056: Daniel J. Tortora, The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761]
1806 – Napoleonic Wars: British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
• [Wikipedia: British invasions of the River Plate]
1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
• [Wikipedia: Death of Joseph Smith]
• [Wikipedia: Anti-Mormonism]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Joseph Smith]
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]
• [Wikipedia: Atlanta campaign]
• [GettysburgNPS: Kennesaw Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign (Lecture)]
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• [Wikipedia: Royal Blue (train)]
• [VIDEO: B&O's ''Royal Blue'' engine 5304 (Volume 1)]
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Joshua Slocum]
• [The Mysterious Disappearance Of A Sea Pioneer | Joshua Slocum Documentary | Timeline]
• [Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua SLOCUM read by Alan Chant | Full Audio Book]
• [Sailing alone around the world: A voyage beyond imagination (Kindle Edition)].....[Internet Archive Free eBook].....[Free Gutenberg Project eBook]
1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• [Wikipedia: Russian battleship Potemkin]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Silent Film: Battleship Potemkin (1925) with Eng Subtitles].....[1925: How Sergei Eisenstein Used Montage To Film The Unfilmable]
• [Wikipedia: 1905 Russian Revolution]
1914 – The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
• [Wikipedia: Illinois Monument]
• [VIDEO TOUR: ILLINOIS Monument Kennesaw Mountain]
• [Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park]
1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
• [Wikipedia: Tanaka Memorial]
• [Newsreel: Japan's Blueprint for World Conquest - The Tanaka Memorial - Japanese Subtitles]
• Dan Carlin's Supernova in the East [6 Video Playlist]
1941 – World War II: Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
• [Wikipedia: Iași pogrom]
• [Black Sunday - documentary] (Romanian w English subtitles)
• [EuroNews: Romanian pogrom showed Nazis 'how to do mass murder']
1941 – World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
• [Battle of Białystok–Minsk]
• [Barbarossa Visualized: The Battle of Bialystok-Minsk]
• [1941 German Newsreel Battle of Bialystok-Minsk Wwii Eastern Front Tank Battle]
1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• [wIKIPEDIA: Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946]
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• [Korean War: President Truman Reports - June 1950]
• [President Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea]
• [Newsreel: Truman Authorizes U.S. Forces To Enter Korean War]
1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 – The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• [Newsreel: Hundreds Die In Hurricane Audrey (1957)]
• [Weather History: Hurricane Audrey 1957]
1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• [AP Video]
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
• [Wikipedia: Hijacking of the Plane]
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
• [Wikipedia: Itavia Flight 870]
• [A Toilet Bomb Sends Flight 870 Down]
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• [Wilson Center Digital Archive] (PDF)
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• [Launch and Landing]
• [Wikipedia: STS-4]
1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
• [Gare de Lyon rail accident]
• [AP VIDEO]
• [Seconds from Disaster S02E11 Paris Train Crash]
1988 – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kills nine to 12 and injures over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.
• [Wikipedia: Villa Tunari massacre]
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
• [Wikipedia: TMatsumoto sarin attack]
• [The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation]
• [CDC: Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat?]
• [Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack]
• [Japan executes cult members behind deadly 1995 sarin subway attack]
2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
• [Wikipedia: Complexo do Alemão massacre]
2008 – In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
• [Wikipedia: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph]
• [NASA's IRIS Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) Launches On A Pegasus Rocket]
• [NASA Mission Page: IRIS]
2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
• [Wikipedia: 2014 GAIL pipeline explosion]
• [15 killed in blast at GAIL pipeline in Andhra Pradesh]
• [Victims of Gail Gas Pipeline Explosion | Completes One Year of Gail Incident]
2015 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
• [Wikipedia: 2015 New Taipei water park fire]
• [Nearly 500 injured by fireball at Taiwan water park]
2017 – A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.
• [Petya Ransomware Attack – What’s Known]
• [Microsoft: Update on Petya malware attacks]
• ['Petya' ransomware attack: what is it and how can it be stopped?]
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, June 27, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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