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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Seasonally hot and muggy conditions will continue through the week. There will be a chance of mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms through much of the week as well. An upper level disturbance will pass by to our north on Monday bringing our greatest chances for rain in the week. Another upper level disturbance will pass to our north around Thursday increasing our chances for showers and storms. Expecting the hot ridge over Texas to nose into our area next weekend with temperatures a few degrees above normal.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the west.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. WInds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. 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 chance of showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 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.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light winds out of the west.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light Winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. 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 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 70.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Scattered thunderstorms are expected across the higher terrain of the Carolinas and northeast Georgia this afternoon, probably arriving in the mid-to-late afternoon hours from the northwest. A few of these storms may become severe and produce damaging winds along with large hail. Any storm may produce dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning, localized gusty winds, and heavy downpours.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jul 18 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 17, 2022
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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 lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range 2.4 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Cenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (2.0 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 18th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1980
Lowest Temperature 47°F in Highlands in 1904
Greatest Rainfall 2.13 inches in Highlands in 1974
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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Local and State News
• Future of NC energy policy, impacting climate and monthly bills, being written now [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• UNC Health settles with blind patients who accused medical system of violating their rights [Raleigh News and Observer]
• 'Significant' nursing shortage leads hospital to suspend ICU operations [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Real to reel: North Carolina is the real star of 'Where the Crawdads Sing' [Greensboro News and Record]
• Another invasive insect eyeballing our mountains [The Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
• SCC Occupational Therapy Assistant students visit Full Spectrum Farms [The Southern Scoop]
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 17 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 17th]
• ISW Special Report: Russian Volunteer Units and Battalions [Institute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine's harvest becomes the new battlefield, as fires blacken its arable heartlands [CNN]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 144 [Al Jazeera]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 98-107)
Jomini of the West has bewen hit hard by COVID, but will be posting a new thread soon --editor
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's Medvedev: Attack on Crimea will ignite 'Judgement Day' response [Reuters]
• Russian anti-war journalist Marina Ovsyannikova reportedly detained [DW News]
• ‘I worry about this place’: A day in Ukraine’s Donetsk [AP News]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 144 [Al Jazeera]
• Collecting the war dead and the anti-war priest - round-up [BBC News]
• Economic War of Attrition Takes Toll on Russia, West [Wall Street Journal]
• Putin Aims to Shape a New Generation of Supporters, Through Schools [New York Times]
• Medvedev warns of ‘Judgment Day’ as Russia hunts Ukraine’s US-made HIMARS [South China Morning Post]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Former Russian president warns of ‘Judgement Day’ [Russia Today]
• WT: Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia will help Russia [Pravda ]
• EU to keep sanctions if peace in Ukraine signed on Russia’s terms — Germany’s Scholz [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
New Report On Uvalde Mass Shooting Critiques “Egregiously Poor Decision Making” | NBC News
[Robb Elementary School Attack Response Assessment and Recommendations (26 page PDF)]
[INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE ON THE ROBB ELEMENTARY SHOOTING (81 page PDF)]
• Nearly 400 officers were at Uvalde school as police waited to confront gunman, report says [Oregon Public Broadcasting]
• Khamenei adviser says Tehran 'capable of building nuclear bomb' [Jerusalem Post]
• Eight things that happened during the Biden's Middle East trip - analysis [Jerusalem Post]
• Wildfires continue to rage in France and Spain [France 24]
• How many aircraft carriers does China need? One analyst says at least 6 [South China Morning Post]
One Night in America: The Gun Violence Epidemic Plaguing The U.S. | NBC News
• Chief: 3 dead in Indiana mall shooting; witness kills gunman [WHNS-TV (Spartanburg, SC)]
• Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes [Rolling Stone via Yahoo! News]
• Trump’s fundraising dips, trailing DeSantis [Washington PostE]
• Fed Officials Preparing to Lift Interest Rates by Another 0.75 Percentage Point [Wall Street Journal]
• Investors are obsessed with size of Fed’s next rate hike. Here’s what they’re missing. [Market Watch]
• Millions in jewels stolen from armored truck in California [ABC News]
• Global Central Banks Ramp Up Inflation Fight [New York Times]
Face The Nation: Hochstein, Furman, Bowser 07-17-2022 | CBS News
Global National: July 17, 2022 | Canadian emergency rooms in crisis as doctors, nurses on the brink
Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 17
PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 17th, 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 5:46pm CEST, 15 July 2022, there have been 557,917,904 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,358,899 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 12 July 2022, a total of 12,130,881,147 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:46pm CEST, 15 July 2022, there have been 88,027,926 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,012,816 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 8 July 2022, a total of 589,664,214 vaccine doses have been administered.
• TWiV 919: Motivated by volatiles [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 918: COVID-19 clinical update #123 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t. [The Atlantic]
• BA.5 doesn’t care that you just had Covid-19 [Vox]
• You'll likely catch COVID-19 again and again. Will each round feel milder? [CBC]
• The impact of crowd gatherings on the spread of COVID-19 [Science Direct]
• The durability of natural infection and vaccine-induced immunity against future infection by SARS-CoV-2 [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]
• BA.5 spurs new calls to fund next-generation COVID-19 vaccines [The Hill]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings [Krebs on Security]
• Homeland Security warns: Expect Log4j risks for 'a decade or longer' [The Register]
• Technical Report: Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning [Space Telescope Science InstituteE]
• Sand clouds are common in atmospheres of brown dwarfs [Science News]
• Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic 'Anthropause'? [New York Times via Yahoo! News]
• Stanford-Developed Millirobot Swims in Your Body and Delivers Medicine to Places That Need It [SciTechDaily]
• The US Army selects Canoo’s EV for analysis and demonstration [Drive Tesla Canada]
• Algae biopanel windows make power, oxygen and biomass, and suck up CO2 [New Atlas]
• 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
15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra | The Fall of Civilizations
Ship 24 Prepared for Engine Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica
'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered in Chile | Al Jazeera
How SpaceX Could Win The Space Race | CNBC Marathon
NSF Live: Talking Booster 7's anomaly, Webb's first images, Roscosmos' leadership shakeup, and more | NASA Spaceflight
Do As I Say, Not As I Do | S6E02 | The Chinese Sayings Podcast
Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #303
206: New Red Hat CEO, Linux Mint 21, Lubuntu, Rocky Linux, System76 and more Linux news! | This Week in Linux
All Hands on Deck | LINUX Unplugged 467
The Uber Files | Tech News Weekly -TWIT TV
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Ukraine says Russia is storing weapons at Europe's biggest nuclear plant | DW News
Putin's closest ally - Could Belarus successfully invade Ukraine (probably not) | Perun
Russia steps up attacks as Zelenskyy vows to retake lost land | DW News
Zelensky sacks Ukraine’s top prosecutor, security chief | FRANCE 24 English
Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft shot down in Kharkiv region,' says Moscow | World News | WION
Cargo plane carrying weapons crashes in Greece | BBC News
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
July 18th is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 166 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)
77 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Cremera]
• [Wikipedia: Roman–Etruscan Wars]
• [The Battle of Cremera (Ancient Rome History Explained)]
387 BC – (Some date this as 390 BC) Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Allia]
• [Wikipedia: Brennus (leader of the Senones)]
• [Wikipedia: Senones]
• [Battle of Allia and Sack of Rome – Rise of the Republic ] (Kings and Generals)
362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
• [Wikipedia: Roman–Persian Wars]
• [Wikipedia: Julian's Persian expedition]
• [Julian's Persian Expedition]
452 – Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
• [Wikipedia: Sack of Aquileia]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Attila]
• [Wikipedia: Huns]
645 – Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Ansi]
• [Siege of Ansi - Tang Taizong's Greatest Defeat by Goguryeo - Korean 3 Kingdoms]
• [Wikipedia: Goguryeo–Tang War/a>]
• [Korean Three Kingdoms Period explained (History of Korea)]
1195 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Alarcos]
• [The Battle of Alarcos 1195 - the Fight Between Christianity and Islam Intensifies]
• [Spain's Two Greatest Battles: Alarcos and Las Navas de Tolosa]
1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
• [Wikipedia: Edict of Expulsion]
1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1389 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
• [Wikipedia: Truce of Leulinghem]
1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Kondurcha River]
• [Wikipedia: Tokhtamysh–Timur war]
1507 – In Brussels, Prince Charles I, is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, a year after inheriting the title.
1555 – The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1806 – A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
• [Wikipedia: 1806 Birgu polverista explosion]
1812 – The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
• [Treaty of Örebro]
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)]
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Swedish War (1810-1812)]
1841 – Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1862 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
• [Wikipedia: Second Battle of Fort Wagner]
• [Battles of Fort Wagner]
• [The Second Battle of Fort Wagner]
1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• [Wikipedia: First Vatican Council]
• [Wikipedia: Papal infallibility]
1872 – The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• [Wikipedia: Ballot Act 1872]
1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
• [Wikipedia: Adolf Hitler]
• [Wikipedia: Mein Kampf]
• [Mein Kampf: The Secrets of Adolf Hitler's Book of Evil ]
• [Download Links]
1936 – Spanish Civil War: On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
• [Wikipedia: Second Spanish Republic]
• [Wikipedia: Spanish coup of 1936]
• [The Spanish Civil War - Episode 1: Prelude to Tragedy]
• [How Left/Right Partisanship Starts a Civil War in Spain | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 2 of 3]
1942 – World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
• [Beisfjord massacre]
1942 – World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
• [Battle Stations: Messerschmitt 262 - Race for the Jet ]
• [AIRPOWER 2016 - Full Messerschmitt Me 262 Flying Display]
1944 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• [Gemini 10 Launch]
• [Gemini 10 : A Quick Look - 1966 NASA Space Program Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42]
1966 – A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
• [Wikipedia: Hough riots]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [ABC News 1966 Special Report: "Cleveland Riots"]
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• [Nadia Comaneci - 1976 Gymnastics All Seven Perfect 10's]
1982 – Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
• [Wikipedia: Plan de Sánchez massacre]
1984 - Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco
• [CSPAN2: 1984 Walter Mondale Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech]
1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
• [News 8's Carlos Amezcua reports on San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre in 1984]
• [San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre — 35 Years Later] (2019 Video)
1992 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
• [Wikipedia: AMIA bombing]
• [Micro-History: AMIA Bombing]
• [Chilling Account of the AMIA Terror Attack]
1994 – Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
• [Wikipedia: Rwandan genocide]
• [Rwandan Genocide Documentary]
• [Rwanda Genocide documentary]
1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Mullaitivu (1996)]
• [Video playlist] (no translation)
• [Wikipedia: Sri Lankan Civil War]
2012 - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
• [Wikipedia Bio: Kim Jong-un]
• [North Korea names new 'supreme leader']
2012 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
• [Wikipedia: 2012 Burgas bus bombing]
• [WSJ: New Developments in Bulgaria Bus Bombing]
2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
• [Wikipedia: Detroit bankruptcy]
• [How Detroit Went From A Booming Metropolis To A Shrinking City | NBC Nightly News]
• [Bankrupt - How Cronyism and Corruption Brought Down Detroit]
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
• [Wikipedia: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]
• [Profile: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)]
2018 - Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market
• [Google fined a record $5 billion by the EU for Android antitrust violations]
• [EU hits Google with record fine of over $5 billion]
• [WSJ: Google Is Fined $5 Billion by EU in Android Antitrust Case]
2018 - New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
• [Wikipedia: Meghalayan]
• [Wikipedia: 4.2-kiloyear event]
• [Massive drought or myth? Scientists spar over an ancient climate event behind our new geological age]
• [Welcome to the Meghalayan Age, the Latest Stage in Earth’s 4.54-Billion-Year History]
• [Meghalayan Age - Indepth Explanation, Evidence, Geological Timescale]
• [In Depth : Meghalayan Age]
• [Hunger and the Late Bronze Age Collapse (Sea Peoples)]
2019 – A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.
• [Wikipedia: Kyoto Animation arson attack]
• [33 dead in arson attack on Kyoto animation studio | Nine News Australia]
• [Mourners pay tribute to victims of the Kyoto Animation studio fire]
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Published at 3:00am on Monday, July 18, 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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