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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A weak surface front will drift southeast of our area tonight and become stationary from the Gulf coast to the Carolina coast through the middle of the week as it slowly dissipates. Moisture will gradually increase for the remainder of the week, keeping daily shower and thunderstorm chances in the forecast. Another weak front will approach from the north during the weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. WInds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the east. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 10am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Thursday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A chance of thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Widely scattered thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening..
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Jun 28 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
East of the Windward Islands:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Two, located several hundred miles east of the southern Windward Islands.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
1. Northern Gulf of Mexico:
A surface trough of low pressure is located over the north-central Gulf of Mexico. While shower and thunderstorm activity with this system is currently limited, surface pressures have fallen some over the last 24 hours. Some additional development of this system is possible as it moves generally westward at 5-10 mph and approaches the coast of Texas during the next few days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.
2. Central Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave located about 1200 miles east of the Windward Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. This system is forecast to interact with another tropical wave to its east over the next several days, and some gradual development is possible later this week while the overall system moves west- northwestward at around 15 mph across 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
No smoke fields will be crossing Macon County today, no map was produced.
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 3.3 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (1.9 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for June 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 95°F in Franklin in 1978
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1968
Greatest Rainfall 3.33 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1957
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 town set to cease existence as state treasurer calls for criminal charges [Carolina Public Press]
• Inmate dies at Jackson County Detention Center [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Josh Stein’s office to respond this week to GOP leaders on NC’s 20-week abortion ban [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Documents show who supports Mission, Novant or AdventHealth expansion [Asheville Citizen Times]
• Macon & Swain County emergency personnel respond to fatal swift water rescue [The Southern Scoop]
• https://archive.ph/g7xqD [The Waynesville Mountaineer (Waynesville, 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 27 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for June 27th]
*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
Missile hits shopping mall in central Ukraine | ABC Nightly News
• Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Shopping Mall, Zelensky Says, as G-7 Leaders Pledge More Aid [Wall Street Journal]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 98-107)
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 108-123. Mid-June has seen the Russian Armed Forces maintain their operational momentum and make important gains in the Donbas while the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to press their counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast. #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/5MnyYOaUbz
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) June 28, 2022
• Ahead of NATO summit, alliance sets out plan to increase high-alert forces [DW News]
• Zelensky calls deadly missile strike on Kremenchuk mall a ‘brazen terrorist act’ [France 24]
• Russia and Ukraine’s war over grain [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Shopping Mall, Zelensky Says, as G-7 Leaders Pledge More Aid [Wall Street Journal]
• Russian Forces Push to Extend Gains as G-7 Leaders Promise More Aid to Ukraine [The Wall Street Journal]
• West Seeks a More Effective Way to Tighten Sanctions on Russia [Wall Street Journal]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Joe Biden paid his son’s bills for prostitutes – media [Russia Today]
• The Great White West Aims to Crush Slavs and Chinese [Pravda ]
• Russia defaults on Eurobonds — Moody’s [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]
• ‘Stacks of bodies’: 46 people found dead in trailer, 16 hospitalized, San Antonio officials say [KSAT-TV (San Antonio, TX)]
• 23 million Californians to get up to $1,050 in "inflation relief" checks [CBS News]
• India journalist Mohammed Zubair arrested for 2018 Twitter post [Al Jazeera]
• Weed users nearly 25% more likely to need emergency care and hospitalization [CNN]
• Senate sergeant-at-arms in charge of security during Jan 6 riot dies [Independent]
• Trump vs. DeSantis, by the numbers [The Hill]
Global National: June 27, 2022 | Zelenskyy pleads with G7 allies for more aid amid Russian attacks
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 27th, 2022
--> PBS NewsHour Full Episode June 27th, 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 4:49pm CEST, 27 June 2022, there have been 540,923,532 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,325,785 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 4:49pm CEST, 27 June 2022, there have been 85,673,420 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,005,025 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 17 June 2022, a total of 584,348,681 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Safety and efficacy of convalescent plasma for severe COVID-19: a randomized, single blinded, parallel, controlled clinical study [BMC Infectious Diseases]
• Fast-evolving COVID variants complicate vaccine updates [Nature]
• U.S. grapples with whether to modify COVID vaccine for fall [CTV News]
• America Is Sliding Into the Long Pandemic Defeat [The Atlantic]
• Fatigue and quality-of-life in the year following SARS-Cov2 infection [BMC Infectious Diseases]
• 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
• Ethereum Mining Is Going Away, and Miners Are Not Happy [Bloomberg]
• The Supreme Court says it won’t consider rewriting defamation law... yet [The Verge]
• Taiwan's GlobalWafers to invest $5 bln in new silicon wafer plant in Texas [Reuters]
• 45% of Streaming Moochers Wouldn’t Purchase Their Favorite Subscription Service If They Couldn’t Use Someone Else’s Login [Lending Tree]
• Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills [Vice News]
• China has plans to make Minority Report a reality for its citizens [TechSpot]
• Spurred by Roe overturn, senators seek FTC probe of iOS and Android tracking [ARS TECHNICA]
• How TikTok is turning a generation of video addicts into a data goldmine [The Guardian]
• 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
Level1 News June 28 2022: Hot Tub Crime Machine
EV Prices Are Shocking - DTNS 4304 | Daily Tech News Show
Cordkillers 413 - Flixstarter | Cord Killers
FINALLY! A Graphene Battery That Could Change Everything | Answers With Joe
What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - Very Busy Week Ahead - June 27, 2022
Booster 7 Testing Begins | SpaceX Starbase
Understanding Starship and Booster Fueling and Quick Disconnect!
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Myths & Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons | Perun
Ukraine War Report | The Situation Room | Evening Report (June, 27th, 2022)
Will costly sanctions last as long as the war in Ukraine? | DW News
Can G7 remain united against President Vladimir Putin? | Inside Story
Missile hits shopping mall in central Ukraine | ABC Nightly News
Wartime economy, can G7 stare down Russia over Ukraine? | FRANCE 24 English
Where is Russia taking Ukraine's stolen grain? | BBC News
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 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 186 days remain until the end of the year.
In common years it is always in ISO week 26.
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)
1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
• [Wikipedia: Kerbogha]
• [Wikipedia: First Crusade]
• [Documentary: The First Crusade]
1119 - Battle of Sarmada (aka Battle of Ager Sanguinis or the Battle of the Field of Blood) - Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Ager Sanguinis]
• [Battle of the Field of Blood, 1119 AD ⚔️ The Crusades ⚔️ (a.k.a. Battle of Ager Sanguinis)]
• [Ager Sanguinis: The Battle of the Field of Blood, 1119]
1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
• [Wikipedia: First Council of Lyon]
1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
• [Wikipedia: Muhammad VI of Granada]
• [Wikipedia: Ismail II of Granada]
1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Kosovo]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Kosovo 1389 - Serbian-Ottoman Wars]
1461 – Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
• [Wikipedia: Edward IV of England]
1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• [Wikipedia: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]
• [Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire: Crash Course World History #219]
• [Wikipedia: Holy Roman Empire]
1575 – Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Nagashino]
• [Wikipedia: Sengoku period]
• [HistoryMarche: Battle of Nagashino, 1575 ⚔️ Takeda clashes with the Oda-Tokugawa alliance]
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Berestechko]
• [Video Essay: Battle of Berestechko]
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Poltava]
• [Poltava – The Great Northern War – Sabaton History 057 [Official]]
• [Great Northern War - When Sweden Ruled the World - Extra History - #1]
1745 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Sullivan's Island]
• [SouthCarolinaETV: Carolina Day | History In A Nutshell]
• [The story of Carolina Day]
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• [Did George Washington’s Bodyguard Plot to Kill Him in 1776?]
• [Wikipedia: Thomas Hickey (soldier)]
• [Legends & Lies: The Patriots - Thomas Jefferson - The spy Thomas Hickey is Hanged] (Dramatization)
1778 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Monmouth]
• [The Battle of Monmouth Courthouse]
• ["Monmouth 1778: Battle for the North" Rev War Re-enactment Documentary]
1797 – Napoleonic Wars: French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
• [Wikipedia: French rule in the Ionian Islands (1797–1799)]
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
• [Wikipedia: British invasions of the River Plate]
1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• [Wikipedia: Coronation of Queen Victoria]
• [The Coronation Where Everything Went Wrong]
• [Victoria Coronation] (Dramatization)
1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
• [Wikipedia: Giselle]
• [Giselle - Full-Length Ballet by Bolshoi Ballet Theatre; Music by Adolphe Adam]
• [Adolphe Adam - Giselle - Yuri Fayer (conductor) - Royal Opera House Orchestra]
1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• [Wikipedia: Union Army of the Potomac]
1870 – The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• [Wikipedia: Ned Kelly]
• [Extra History: Ned Kelly] (video playlist)
• [Ned Kelly: Australia's Most Famous Outlaw]
• [Johnny Cash Sings: Ned Kelly]
1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• [Wikipedia: Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881]
• [5 Major Treaties & Alliances in the Build Up to World War One]
• [Serbia Before World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special]
1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• [Anglo-French Convention of 1882]
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day]
• [History of the Holidays: Labor Day | History]
1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
• [Wikipedia: James Reavis]
• [LEGENDS OF THE OLD WEST | Episode 2: “The Baron of Arizona”]
• [The Peralta Land Grant: James Addison Reavis’s Plan to Steal the Southwest]
1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• [Wikipedia: Twin Shaft disaster]
• [Folksong: Twin Shaft Disaster]
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• [Wikipedia: Spooner Act]
1904 – The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
• [Wikipedia: SS Norge]
1911 – The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhla_meteorite]
• [video clip]
1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
• [Wikipedia: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]
• [Movietone Newsreel]
• [A Shot that Changed the World - The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand I PRELUDE TO WW1]
• [How A Wrong Turn Started World War 1 | First World War EP1 | Timeline]
• [Why Did the Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Cause WWI?]
1917 – World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Versailles]
• [Silent Newsreel]
1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Vidovdan Constitution]
• [Wikipedia: Kingdom of Yugoslavia]
• [Wikipedia: Alexander I of Yugoslavia]
1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
• [Wikipedia: Irish Civil War]
• [Wikipedia: Irish Free State offensive]
1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
• [Mengjiang]
1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
• [Wikipedia: Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina]
• [Stalin's Secret Annexation (1940) - How The Soviets Seized Northern Bukovina]
• [A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3]
1941 - German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
• [Wikipedia: Kishinev pogrom]
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
• [Wikipedia: Case Blue]
• [FALL BLAU 1942 - Examining the Disaster]
• [Case Blue: "Road" to Stalingrad? Combat Effectiveness 1941 vs 1942]
1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1948 – Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
• [Wikipedia: Tito–Stalin split]
• [Tito vs Stalin - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY]
• [Newsreel - 18 months later]
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
• [Wikipedia: Bodo League massacre]
• [Korean Bodo League Massacre]
1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
• [Wikipedia: Hangang Bridge bombing]
• [[최태성의한국전쟁 Eng c.c] 한강 인도교 폭파의 비극 The tragedy of the Hangang Bridge bombing] (Korean with English subtitles)
1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
• [Wikipedia: Seoul National University Hospital massacre]
1956 – Cold War: in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
• [Wikipedia: Poznań protests of 1956]
• [Poznan June: 1956 Anti-Soviet Uprising DOCUMENTARY]
• [Newsreel Footage]
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates (Chicago Illinois)
1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• [Wikipedia: Organization of Afro-American Unity]
• [Malcolm X - By Any Means Necessary - Organization for Afro American Unity]
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson
• [Vietnam Archive: Study Tells How Johnson Secretly Opened Way to Ground Combat]
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• [Luanda Trial]
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• [Wikipedia: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]
• [JUSTIA: Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)]
• [Regents of University of California v. Bakke Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained]
1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
• [Wikipedia: Hafte Tir bombing]
1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• [Wikipedia: Chemical bombing of Sardasht]
• [OPCW Chief Voices Solidarity with Victims of Sardasht Chemical Attack]
• [Iran-Iraq war: Looking back at the chemical bombing of Sardasht]
1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
• [Wikipedia: Gazimestan speech]
• [Wikipedia: Slobodan Milošević]
• [President Slobodan Milošević most patriotic speech, 1988, English - Слободан Милошевић Ушће 1988.] (English subtitles)
1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
• [Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II full fight HD]
• [Mike Tyson Bites Holyfields Ear Clean Off]
• [Wikipedia: Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]
2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
• [BBC News Article]
2004 – Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
• [Wikipedia: Coalition Provisional Authority]
2009 - Professor Stephen Hawking hosts a 'party for time travellers' at the University of Cambridge, not sending out the invites until after the party
• [Stephen Hawking’s party for time travellers ]
2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
2018 - Lone gunman attacks offices of Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, killing nine
• [Wikipedia: Capital Gazette shooting]
• [NBC News Special Report]
2019 - 3,400 year old Bronze Age palace from the Mittani Empire uncovered on the banks of the Tigris River, due to lack of rainfall dropping the water level in the Mosul Dam reservoir
2020 - Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, doubling in less than two months (Johns Hopkins)
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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