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GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure off the Southeast coast will provide a moist southerly flow of air over our region into the weekend. This will keep daily shower and thunderstorm chances mainly for the afternoon and evenings. A weak cold front drifts down from the north into next week providing a better focus for showers and storms.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. 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 2am, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Areas of fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 10am. Areas of fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s.
Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7pm and midnight, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Patchy fog before 3am, then areas of fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers between 9pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. 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 2am, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Areas of fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Areas of fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then a slight chance of showers after 4am. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Areas of fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
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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 Fri Jul 1 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Two, located over the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
1. Western Gulf of Mexico:
Satellite imagery and surface observations indicate that the area of low pressure in the far western Gulf of Mexico has degenerated into a surface trough and is now moving inland along the southern Texas coast. Development of this system is no longer anticipated as it moves farther inland. Regardless, heavy rain and associated flooding are possible over portions of southeast Texas. For more on the potential for heavy rain and flooding, please see products issued by your National Weather Service office.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent.
2. Western Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave located a few hundred miles east of the Windward Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Any development of this system should be slow to occur while the wave moves west-northwestward during the next day or two. The wave is forecast to move over the Windward Islands today and then over the eastern Caribbean Sea by the weekend, where further development is unlikely due to unfavorable environmental conditions.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 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 upper range of green.
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, Plantain, and Dock being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (1.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 99°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2012
Lowest Temperature 42°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 1.65 inches in Highlands in 1961
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 2022
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on 07-29-1952
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlands on 07-27-1911
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on 07-29-1879
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
• Macon County Board of Education - June 2022 Meeting [Macon Media]
• NC lawmakers OK historic $27.9B budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Supreme Court will hear NC case with 2024 presidential election implications [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Cherokee County details $53 million paid over 25 illegal custody DSS lawsuits [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Will Mark Meadows, ex-Trump chief, be charged after Jan. 6 explosive testimony? [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Mountain Projects takes steps forward in Jackson County [Smoky Mountain News]
State Budget Details
• NC Budget Table of Contents [Google Drive (PDF)]
• NC House Bill 103: 2022 Appropriations Act [Google Drive (PDF)]
• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022 [Google Drive (PDF)]
• House Bill 103 Information and Voting History [NC General Assembly Website]
• Raises for state employees, preparations for recession, in proposed state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, 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 30 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for June 28th]
🔴 LIVE - Snake Island Retreat; Finland & Sweden NATO | Combat Footage Live Review by Funker530
Does Putin want to "crush" NATO? | Conflict Zone
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
• Russia abandons Black Sea outpost of Snake Island in victory for Ukraine [Reuters]
• Why US-NATO can’t let Russia win [Asia Times]
• Russians Urged to Snitch on Ukraine War Critics in Return to Soviet-Style Denunciations [The Moscow Times]
• Putin accuses NATO of 'imperial ambitions' over Finland, Sweden membership offer [DW News]
• U.S. to Support Ukraine for ‘As Long as It Takes,’ Biden Says [Wall Street Journal]
• Russia withdraws from Snake Island: Moscow's forces abandon strategic Black Sea outpost [France 24]
• Snake Island: Why Russia couldn't hold on to strategic Black Sea outcrop [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Biden pledges long-term support for Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Putin's Ukraine game will reformat Eurasia and deprive NATO of dominance [Pravda ]
• Protest expressed to UK ambassador over London’s boorish statements — Foreign Ministry [TASS Russian News Agency]
The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court Swearing-in Ceremony | C-SPAN
• US marks ascension of Jackson to Supreme Court [Courthouse News Service]
Supreme Court issues 2 major decisions on EPA authority and "Remain in Mexico" rule | CBS News
• Supreme Court curtails EPA’s authority to fight climate change [SCOTUSblog]
• Divided court allows Biden to end Trump’s “remain in Mexico” asylum policy [SCOTUSblog]
• U.S. Supreme Court throws out rulings upholding gun restrictions [Reuters]
Biden answers questions on Russia-Ukraine war, abortion rights following NATO summit | CBS News
• Markets Post Worst First Half of a Year in Decades [Wall Street Journal]
• Hong Kong marks 25th anniversary of British handover to China [DW News]
• Salah Abdeslam sentenced to life in prison as Paris attacks trial winds up [France 24]
Global National: June 30, 2022 | Air Canada cutting back flights as country's travel chaos continues
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 30th, 2022
--> PBS NewsHour Full Episode June 30th, 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 6:26pm CEST, 29 June 2022, there have been 543,352,927 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,331,059 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 June 2022, a total of 11,981,689,168 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:26pm CEST, 29 June 2022, there have been 86,118,591 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,006,416 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 24 June 2022, a total of 585,796,438 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Los Angeles Film and TV Productions Now Required to Mask Indoors [Variety]
• FDA: Updated COVID boosters will roll out in the fall [AXIOS]
• Should you start going to business conferences again? [Computer World]
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Recommends Inclusion of Omicron BA.4/5 Component for COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses [US Food and Drug Administration]
• US buys 105 million COVID vaccine doses for fall campaign [AP 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
• Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge. [NBC News]
• MIT proposes using a 'space bubble' shield the size of Brazil to cool the Earth [Interesting Engineering]
• Substack and Unity join the growing list of tech layoffs [Fast Company]
• China's first 1-mln-kilowatt-grade onshore wind power project put into operation [CGTN]
• Samsung Electronics starts 3-nanometer chip production [Tech Crunch]
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
Level1 News July 1 2022: The Grave Is No Bar To My Wake Word
Okay to Drop Into Toilet - DTNS 4307 | Daily Tech News Show
How America Won Back Semiconductors from Japan | Asianometry
Cordkillers 413 - Flixstarter | Cord Killers
Could We Decode Alien Physics? | PBS Space Time
1940: When Britain Stood Alone In WW2 | Price Of Empire | Timeline
Starlink V2 Loader Tested with Ship 24 | SpaceX Boca Chica
Artemis will fail if NASA cancels Lunar Gateway. Here's why... | The Angry Astronaut
Artemis I: We Are Capable | NASA
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> 🔴 LIVE - Snake Island Retreat; Finland & Sweden NATO | Combat Footage Live Review by Funker530
Biden vows indefinite support for Kyiv | Al Jazeera
NATO: can revitalised alliance deter Putin's Russia | FRANCE 24 English
Does Putin want to "crush" NATO? | Conflict Zone
Revealing the hidden casualties of one elite Russian regiment in Ukraine | BBC Newsnight
Ukraine bombed Donbas for 8 years? | Operator Starsky
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
July 1st is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 183 days remain until the end of the year.
It is the last day of the first half of the year. The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in a leap year. The midpoint of the year for southern hemisphere DST countries occurs at 11:00 p.m.
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)
AD 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Tiberius Julius Alexander]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Vespasian]
552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Taginae]
• [Kings and Generals: Justinian's Restoration - Battles of Taginae (552) and Volturnus (554)]
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totila]
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
• [Battle of Dorylaeum]
• [Crusaders vs. Seljuk Turks: the Battle of Dorylaeum, 1097]
• [The First Crusade]
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
• [Battle of La Higueruela]
• [Kingdom of Castile]
1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
1523 – Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
• [Wikipedia: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos]
1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
• [Union of Lublin]
• [Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]
1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
• [Westminster Assembly]
• [Parliament of England]
• [A Short Introduction to the Westminster Assembly]
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
• [Glorious Revolution]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Boyne]
• [Battlefield Britain - Boyne]
• [The Battle of the Boyne – Quick History Facts in Under 3 Minutes]
• [England's 'Glorious Revolution' Explained]
1766 РFran̤ois-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• [François-Jean de la Barre]
• [Wikipedia: Dictionnaire philosophique]
• [English Translation at The Internet Archive] (downloadable in multiple formats)
1770 – Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
• [Wikipedia: Lexell's Comet]
1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• [Wikipedia: Raid on Lunenburg]
• [Wikipedia: Captain Noah Stoddard]
• [Sack of Lunenburg] (American War of Independence at Sea website)
1819 РJohann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by Fran̤ois Arago.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Johann Georg Tralles]
• [Great Comet of 1819]
• [A NEW ORBIT FOR COMET C/1819 N1 (GREAT COMET OF 1819)] (Research Paper PDF)
1837 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1846 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
• [Wikipedia Bio" Adolphe Sax]
• [Wikipedia: Saxophone]
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
• [Wikipedia: Quinault Treaty]
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
• [Wikipedia: Russian State Library]
• [Official Website]
• [The Russian State Library in Moscow] (video montage/tour)
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Malvern Hill]
• [Malvern Hill: Richmond Animated Battle Map]
• ["The Peninsula Campaign" @ HAMPTON ROADS ; "American Civil War]
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
• [Wikipedia: Keti Koti (Emancipation Day)]
• [Keti Koti Amsterdam] (2015 video)
• [The Dutch West India Company (WIC) – The History of Slave Trade during the Dutch Golden Age]
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Gettysburg]
• [Gettysburg: Animated Battle Map] (American Battlefield Trust)
• [Battle Of Gettysburg] (dramatization/reenactment)
• [Civil War - "The Battle Of Gettysburg" - A Concise History] (Lionheart Filmworks)
• [The First Day at Gettysburg - Ranger John Nicholas] (Gettysburg NPS
• [The Civil War Battle Series: Gettysburg] (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Lecture)
1867 – The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• [British North America Act]
• [Wikipedia: Canada Day]
• [CBC News Special: Canada Day 2019]
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
• [Wikipedia: United States Department of Justice]
• [Official Website/a>]
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• [Wikipedia: Sholes and Glidden typewriter]
• [Sholes and Glidden Typewriter video]
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Charles Taze Russell]
• [Wikipedia: The Watchtower]
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
• [Wikipedia: Congo Free State]
• [Wikipedia: Leopold II of Belgium]
• [Leopold II of Belgium: The Biggest Coverup In European History]
• [Meet The Forgotten "Hitler" Who Killed 15 Million Africans...]
• [King Leopold II & the Congo Free State (1885-1908)]
• [King Leopold II & the Congo Free State Genocide | African Biographics]
• [King Leopold's ghost still haunts the Congo]
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of San Juan Hill]
• [Spanish–American War]
• [The Spanish-American War - Explained in 11 minutes]
• [Black Soldiers Were the Real Heroes at San Juan Hill. And They Got No Credit.]
• [July 1, 1889 ~ The Battle of San Juan Hill]
1901 – French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
• [Britannica: Law of Associations]
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• [The First Race 1903 - Tour de France]
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
• [Wikipedia: Agadir Crisis]
• [Wikipedia: SMS Panther]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [1.2 Second Moroccan Crisis]
1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Kurt Wintgens]
• [Fokker Eindecker Video]
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
• [Wikipedia: First day on the Somme]
• [Simple History: The First day of the Somme (1916)]
• [Battle of the Somme (WW1 Documentary) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History] (documentary/dramatization/reenactment)
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
• [Wikipedia: Great Railroad Strike of 1922]
• [Unionism in Defeat: The 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike]
1923 – The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
• [The Regina Riot - Video]
• [Wikipedia: Regina Riot]
1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
• [First Battle of El Alamein]
• [The Battle Of El Alamein: Montgomery vs Rommel | Greatest Tank Battles | War Stories]
• [Battlefield S5/E2 - The Battle of El Alamein]
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
1946 – Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
• [Wikipedia: Crossroads Able]
• [Newsreel and Archival Footage Collected by AtomCentral]
• [Project Crossroads - Nuclear Test Film (1946)]
• [Baker 1946 - Operation Crossroads - Atomic Bomb ] (Stabilized, Colorized and Upscaled)
• [FAS: United States Nuclear Tests -- By Date]
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
• [Wikipedia: International Geophysical Year]
• [Newsreel]
• [The Restless Sphere, BBC, June 30, 1957]
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
1960 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
• [Introduction of Zip Codes - United States Postal Service Promo (1960s)]
• [What Is A Zip Code: Zip Codes Explained & What Each Number Means]
• [Wikipedia: ZIP Code]
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Kim Philby]
• [The Spy Who Went Into the Cold | Kim Philby: Soviet Super Spy | Timeline]
• [Video of British Super Spy Kim Philby explaining how he succeeded at spying]
• [When Five Cambridge University Students Became Soviet Spies | Secrets Of War | Timeline]
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
• [Wikipedia: Merger Treaty]
• [The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World] (Lecture at University of Delaware)
1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• [Wikipedia: Phoenix Program]
1968 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
• [Handover of Hong Kong | Wikipedia]
• [Hong Kong: Return to China | 1997 Handover of Hong Kong - Special from ABC 10]
• [LIVE: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends Hong Kong handover anniversary celebrations]
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Ãœberlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2020 – The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, July 01, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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