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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Cool high pressure to our north will usher in below-normal temperatures for today and Monday. Temperatures rebound to near normal by mid- week as shower and thunderstorm chances increase ahead of another cold front.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, 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 9pm, then a slight chance of showers between 9pm and midnight. Patchy fog before 11pm, then patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
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.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Winds out of the east 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday
A slight chance of showers between 2pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 20%.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 60%. 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 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and midnight. Patchy fog before 9pm, then patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and midnight. Patchy fog before 9pm, then patchy fog after 10pm. 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.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are expected again today. These storms would once again be capable of producing dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning, isolated strong-to-damaging winds, and heavy rainfall.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun Jul 10 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - July 9, 2022 | hurricanetrack
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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 and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (1.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 10th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 93°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1980
Lowest Temperature 43°F in Highlands in 1918
Greatest Rainfall 3.44 inches in Highlands in 1916
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 July
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
Video shows how well bear-proof trash cans work | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
• Greenville apartment complexes to terminate Section 8 leases, raises rent for others [WITN-TV (Washington, NC)]
• Woman claiming to be NC congressman's daughter responds to 'very upsetting' tweet [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
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, July 09 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 9th]
G20 summit in Bali overshadowed by Ukraine war | DW News
• Ukraine-Russia: Hidden tech war as Slovyansk battle looms [BBC News]
How much could it cost to rebuild Ukraine? | Counting the Cost
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
• Ukraine's Zelenskyy dismisses German ambassador Andriy Melnyk [DW News]
• War fatigue, Europe inflation hit Ukraine aid response [France 24]
• Ukraine Braces for Russian Assault on City It Retook After 2014 Revolt [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine reports heavy Russian missile strikes in east and south [BBC News]
• Amid conflict, Latvia leads Baltics in felling Soviet memorials [Al Jazeera]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• EU to build new top-secret bunker – media [Russia Today]
• Stern: Two German soldiers planned to explode Crimean Bridge [Pravda ]
• Ukrainian army shells Alchevsk again with HIMARS — LPR mission [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
Why Tensions Between China And Taiwan Are On The Rise | CNBC
• Bay Area climate activists target SUVs, deflate tires [CBS News]
• How Redistricting Gives Republicans New Political Power [Wall Street Journal]
• Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous [KFOR-TV (Oklahoma City, OK)]
• Florida Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Uploading Bomb-Making Video [New York Times]
Global National: July 9, 2022 | Rogers CEO apologizes, says "maintenance upgrade" caused outage
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 8th, 2022
--> PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 8th, 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 5:33pm CEST, 8 July 2022, there have been 551,226,298 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,345,595 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 3 July 2022, a total of 12,037,259,035 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:33pm CEST, 8 July 2022, there have been 87,176,676 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,009,906 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 24 June 2022, a total of 585,796,438 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Epidemiologist warns of 'serious situation' by fall if COVID infections aren't brought under control [CBC News]
• NYC Pushes Indoor Mask Advisory for All as ‘Worst' Omicron Strain Fuels 6th Wave [WNBC-TV ) New York City, NY)]
• TWiV 916: COVID-19 clinical update #122 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• New omicron variant BA.2.75: No hard evidence yet, but cause for concern [DW News]
• U.S. scientists enroll nearly 40,000 patients in high-stakes, $1.2 billion study of long Covid [CNBC]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Read Elon Musk's letter to Twitter calling off his $44 billion takeover deal [Business Insider]
• The metaverse is a new word for an old idea [MIT Technology Review]
• Lock Screen Ads Are Coming to Android Phones in The US [Extreme Tech]
• Rogers outage shows need for Plan B when wireless, internet services fail, analysts say [CBC]
• Boeing threatens to cancel Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft unless given exemption from safety requirements [MSN]
• US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption [Bloomberg]
• Amazon strikes deal with Grubhub parent company, offers free delivery to Prime members [NBC News]
• 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
205: Linux Laptops, Darktable, Xonotic, Team Fortress 2, 30 Years OpenGL and more Linux news! | This Week in Linux
Elon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine! | Everyday Astronaut
Building The Worlds Biggest Foam RC Airplane?! | FliteTest
Evolution of the Indo-European Languages - Ancient Civilizations | Kings and Generals
SpaceX Starship and Booster prepare for static fire, Starlink FCC Battle, CAPSTONE, SLS | Marcus House
Chopsticks Tested | SpaceX Boca Chica
Inside NASA: Building the Next Massive Rocket to the Moon | CNET
The Strange Mystery of Singularities And Evolving Universes | Event Horizon
TWiV 916: COVID-19 clinical update #122 with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
TWiV 917: Boosters on, Paul Offit | Microbe TV
Diabetes - A lucrative disease | DW Documentary
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Kherson region plans referendum on joining Russia | DW News Ukraine Update
War in Ukraine: the battle for Donbas | FRANCE 24 English
How much could it cost to rebuild Ukraine? | Counting the Cost
The Ukrainian volunteers using drones to defend against the Russians | BBC News
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
July 10th is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 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)
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania).
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Dyrrhachium]
• [Wikipedia: Caesar's Civil War]
• [Battle of Dyrrhachium 48 BC - Caesar against Pompey]
• [Caesar's Civil War ⚔️ (ALL PARTS 1 - 5) ⚔️]
• [Historia Civilis: Caesar's Civil War]
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
518 - Former peasant Justin I proclaimed Byzantine emperor in the Hippodrome, Constantinople.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Justin I]
• [Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora - From Swineherd to Emperor - Extra History - #1]
552 - Origin of Armenian calendar.
• [Wikipedia: Armenian calendar]
645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
• [Wikipedia: Isshi Incident]
• [Taika Reform]
• [The Isshi Incident: How a Murder Moved a Capital]
• [This Land is MY Land (Taika Reforms) | History of Japan 19]
988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill]
• [Wikipedia: Early Irish law]
• [Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland]
• [Irish History - Brehon Law with Pat Flannery (Full Version)]
1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Lady Godiva]
• [Who was the real Lady Godiva?]
• [Article by Don Hollway]
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Canute IV]
• [Murder of Saint Canute IV] (Danish.net)
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• [Wikipedia: The Great Fire of 1212]
• [Great Fire of London 1212]
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Northampton (1460)]
• [Wreath laying to commemorate the Battle of Northampton 1460]
• [Wars of Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars]
1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Nicolau Coelho]
1512 – The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
• [Wikipedia: Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre]
• [Conquest of Navarre - 1512] (the dramatic intro is two minutes and a half long)
• [The Reconquista - Part 3 History of Navarre]
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
• [Prince of Ning rebellion]
• [Nanchang - City of Heroes IV: A Revolt Crushed. The Prince of Ning Rebellion. [江西省 南昌市 南昌县]]
1520 - King Charles V France and King Henry VIII of England sign Treaty of Calais.
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Calais]
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Lady Jane Grey]
• [Historic UK: Lady Jane Grey]
• [Lady Jane Grey: England's Forgotten Queen]
• [England's Forgotten Queen: Lady Jane Grey Imprisoned]
• [England's Forgotten Queen: Lady Jane Grey's Execution]
• [Lady Jane (1986)] (dramatization of her execution)
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William the Silent]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Balthasar Gérard]
• [The Assassination of William the Silent (William of Orange)]
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Langport]
• [Wikipedia: English Civil War]
• [What caused the English Civil War? | Origins of the Civil War | 5 Minute History]
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
• [Wikipedia: Vellore mutiny]
• [Wikipedia: East India Company]
• [The Vellore Mutiny of 1806]
1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific (Saltpeter War): Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
• [Battle of La Concepción]
• [War of the Pacific]
1883 – War of the Pacificc (Saltpeter War): Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
• [Battle of Huamachuco]
• [War of the Pacific]
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1920 – Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• [Wikipedia: Bloody Sunday (1921)]
1924 – Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the Paris Olympics.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• [Wikipedia: Scopes Trial]
• [Wikipedia: Butler Act]
• [The Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925) | America Went "Ape" Over This Case]
• [Scopes Monkey – Rare Footage of the "Trial of the Century" | Flashback | History]
• [The Scopes Monkey Trial Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review]
• [Innes Lecture 2020 - The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial: why did so many people hate evolution?]
1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
1938 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Howard Hughes]
• [Howard Hughes' Flight - 1938| Movietone Moment | 10 July 2020]
• [Biography Documentary HD - Howard Hughes]
1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
• [Wikipedia: Vichy France]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [046 - The Dictator of France - The Rise of Philippe Pétain - WW2 - 046 - July 13 1940]
• [18. The Dark Years: Vichy France]
• [Vichy France and the Nature of Fascism (Reading)]
1940 – World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion]
• [Wikipedia: Kanalkampf]
• [Battle of Britain]
1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Poland marks 80th anniversary (2021) of Jedwabne pogrom | Irish Times]
• [On this day: 340 Polish Jews killed in 1941 Jedwabne pogrom | Jerusalem Post]
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
• [Akutan Zero | Wikipedia]
• [Report from U.S. Military Intelligence Service, first published August 13, 1942 | Lone Sentry]
• [The Akutan Zero | Mark Felton Productions]
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
• [Wikipedia]
• [National WW II Museum]
• [Allied Invasion of Sicily | Animated History]
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
• [1950-51 Korean War Kaesong Negotiations Ill Fated - Ill Managed or Deliberate Deceit (PDF)]
• [The Korean War Truce Talks: A Study in Conflict Termination (PDF)]
• [The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy 1950-1951 (PDF)]
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
• [Wikipedia]
• [The Day Television Went Global | Bloomberg Quicktake]
• [Satellite History: Telstar | SatMagazine]
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
• [Chicago Campaign | Stanford]
• [Wikipedia]
• [Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-1966]
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1976 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• [Wikipedia]
• [BBC News]
• [AP News Video Report]
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• [Wikipedia]
• [The Tragic Story Of The Greenpeace Ship That Was Blown Up | Timeline]
• [French Agent Breaks Silence on Bombing Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in 1985]
1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
• [Wikipedia]
• [Boris Yeltsin - The Making of a Leader (2001 Documentary)]
1991 – A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
1992 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
1999 – In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
• [Erden Eruc: Completed first solo circumnavigation of the world by human power]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
2015 - The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed..
• [Wikipedia article]
• [PBS Newshour]
2017 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2017 - NASA's Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at 9,000 kilometers overhead.
• [Jupiter's Great Red Spot seen by Juno]
• [Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Surprisingly Deep | Scientific American]
2018 - The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding.
• [Wikipedia]
• [The full story of Thailand’s extraordinary cave rescue | BBC News]
• [Thai Cave Rescue]
• [Divers reveal extraordinary behind-the-scenes details of Thailand cave rescue | Four Corners]
2019 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
• [Last VW Bug Off Assembly Line in Mexico 2003 | King Rose Archives]
• [The Rise And Fall Of The Volkswagen Beetle | Business Insider]
2019 - Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa found with 210,000 year old skull from Apidima Cave, southern Greece published in "Nature".
• [Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia | Nature (PDF via Sci-Hub)]
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Published at 6:00am on Sunday, July 10, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center. Back to Top
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