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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Typical warm and humid conditions will continue through the upcoming weekend with daily chances for afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Chance of precipitation will increase and maximum temperatures will stay below average ahead of a cold front on Monday. Drier air behind the front will limit precipitation chances on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then isolated showers between 8pm and 9pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 3pm and 4pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight
Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 62. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Southwest wind around 7 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. High near 77. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then isolated showers between 8pm and 9pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming west southwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. West wind 3 to 6 mph.
Sunday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. Calm wind.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. West southwest wind 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. High near 78. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8pm and 2am, then showers likely after 2am. Low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
Big Flares for Field Day and Side-Swiping Storms | Space Weather News 23 June 2023
Back to Top • The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t [ARS TECHNICA]
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
• The official hurricane season for the Atlantic basin is from June 1 to November 30, but tropical cyclone activity sometimes occurs before and after these dates, respectively. The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is September 10, with most activity occurring between mid-August and mid-October.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri Jul 7 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
TROPICAL TIDBITS
Tropical Tidbits is a website run by Macon Media's favorite no-nonsense tropical forecaster, Levi Cowan. He does not post material just to get clicks or to sensationalize the storms he covers to "make them more exciting." He is reliable and sober, unlike The Weather Channel crowd of Drama Queen Meteorologists.
Levi typically posts videos late in the afternoon or early before midnight on Youtube. [Youtube Channel]
[Thursday] Bret on Final Approach to Lesser Antilles; TD4 Forms (06-22-2023)
Above Average Season Forecast - CSU Raises The Bar July 06, 2023 | hurricanetrack
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Almanac
**NC Dept of Air Quality has not updated the map for today**
PM2.5 AQI is 80 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 80 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (23.0 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.9 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 7th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin in 1990
Lowest Temperature 47°F in Highlands in 1918
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.37 inches in Highlands in 1941
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of June Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for July 7th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Lexington, Davidson County in 1977
Lowest Temperature 39°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1992
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.65 inches in Graham, Alamance County in 1919
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Gladys)
--> Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of June Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Jefferson, Ashe County on 06-17-1917
Greatest Rainfall 12.41 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 06-30-1962
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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Local and State News
• Macon County purchases Higdon property, designates property to school board [BPR]
• Professor says WNC is high risk for La Crosse Encephalitis, urges preventative measures against it [WLOS-TV Asheville, NC)]
NC ranks 3rd for pet shelter deaths once again. | WXII-TV (Winston-Salem, NC)
• Big electricity users push for competition in NC energy market [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Set foot on this uninhabited NC island and you’ll be fined $5,000 — if you survive [xxx]
---Recent News Recap---
• Early morning pursuit results in damage of Hyatt Road businesses [Macon County News and Shopping Guide]
• In their words: NC leaders react to Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]
• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
• Stocks Post Broad Losses After Strong Economic Data [Wall Street Journal ]
• FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors” [SOURCE]
• Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood blames satanists in the Georgia Bar for him giving up law license [Raw Story]
• Canadian Police Just Arrested Influential Neo-Nazi ‘Dark Foreigner’ [Vice News]
• Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested there [AP News]
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Overwhelmingly’ Booted From House Freedom Caucus [Daily Caller]
• OceanGate: Owner of Titan submersible suspends exploration [BBC News]
• Russian jets harass US drones over Syria for second day [DW News]
• UN renews calls for Haiti intervention force, calls living conditions 'beyond appalling' [France 24]
• S. Korea says Fukushima water release to meet int'l standards if carried out as planned [Yaonhap News Agency]
France is burning - Macron wants to shut down social media | Rock Rachon | TVP World (Polish News in English)
Washington Today (7-6-23): President Biden promotes clean energy job creation in South Carolina | C-SPAN
Global National: July 6, 2023 | Canadians urged to take precautions over extreme heat
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 06
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 06, 2023)
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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:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:15pm CEST, 21 June 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 12:15pm CEST, 21 June 2023, there have been 768,187,096 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,945,714 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 20 June 2023, a total of 13,461,344,203 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance [ Science: American Association for the Advancement of Science]
• How to Lose a Century of Progress [ The Atlantic]
• More than 3 out of every 4 American adults got COVID by the end of 2022, CDC estimates [ Fortune (via Yahoo News)]
Office Hours with Earth's Virology Professor Livestream 7/5/23 8 pm EST | Microbe TV
• TWiV 1020: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1021: Nextstrain with Trevor Bedford [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from June 30 to July 7: A Full Buck Super Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors” [SOURCE]
• Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans [ARS TECHNICA]
• Threads already has over 95 million posts [The Verge]
• Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads: The Instagram-based Threads app launched on Wednesday night and had activated more than 30 million profiles by Thursday morning. [Semafor]
- Web 3.0 Explained, Plus the History of Web 1.0 and 2.0 (Updated October 23, 2022) [Investopedia]
- The end of Web 2.0 (April 29, 2022) [protocol]
• Twitter granted money transmitter licenses in 3 States, crypto fans grow hopeful [KitCo]
• CFTC Orders Two Florida Men to Pay $5.4 Million in Bitcoin Fraud Case [Decrypt]
• Where and when to see the October 2023 annular eclipse [Astronomy Magazine]
• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
Hardcore History: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | Dan Carlin
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show July 7 2023: FLiРРЕЯ the Not So Friendly Dolphin | Level1 Techs
Deleting Threads Unravels Your Instagram? - DTNS 4555 | Daily Tech News Show
Set It and Forget It | Linux Out Loud 68
Lunar Mining, Processing and Refining | Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Nazis destroy last Jewish sanctuary - War Against Humanity 102 | World War Two
“It was pretty incredible”: Sphere Las Vegas workers react to dazzling light show | KVVU-TV (Henderson, NV)
Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 06 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 6th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 499 [Al Jazeera]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 498: Airstrike on Lviv kills at least four [Euromaiden Press]
• Ukraine war liveblog: Wagner boss back in Russia, says Lukashenko [Al Jazeera]
• Four killed in Russian attack on apartment block in Lviv [TVP World]
• Ukraine: What's the worst-case scenario for Zaporizhzhia? [DW News]
• Russian TV shows wig collection, souvenir sledge hammers seized in raid on Prigozhin residence [France 24]
• Ukraine war: At least 43 injured in daylight strike in Kharkiv region [BBC News]
BREAKING: The US Will Provide Cluster Munitions to Ukraine | Funker530 Veteran Community
Lukashenko says he could launch Russian nuclear weapons | BBC News
Wagner boss back in Russia, says Lukashenko | Al Jazeera
Ukraine identifying where to 'slice through' Russian defences | Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones | Times Radio
Why Ukraine's strategy terrifies the Russian army | Defence in Depth | The Telegraph
Russian disinformation in the Spanish-speaking world | DW News
🔴 (redacted) - Minefields, Rebellions, Photo Ops | Combat Footage Show
Why Do We Call the War in Ukraine Unprovoked? - Debunking Russian Claims | Kings and Generals
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or video About the Russian Perspective
Why the west HATES Russia! | Redacted News
Col Macgregor & Bet-David: Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops on the border | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Zelensky ‘dragging entire planet’ to hell – Russian envoy [Russia Today]
• Russian forces strike military barracks in Lviv [Pravda]
• Kiev seeks to draw NATO directly into Ukrainian conflict, Russian envoy says [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
July 7th is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 177 days remain until the end of the year.
The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system. In the Chinese language, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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)
1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
• [Venetian Crusade]
• [Venice & the Crusades (1090-1125)]
• [6: Venice and the Fourth Crusade]
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• [Retrial of Joan of Arc]
• [The Trials of Joan of Arc ]
1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
• [Battle of Otumba]
• [Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521) - Spanish-Aztec War] History]
1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
• [Raid of the Redeswire]
• [The Raid of Redeswire - 1575]
• [The Callant returns from Redeswire 2018] (local commemoration)
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• [Treaty of Nemours]
• [French Wars of Religion]
• [Ten Minute History - The French Wars of Religion (Short Documentary)]
1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• [Battle of Larga]
1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
• [Battle of Hubbardton]
• [The Battle of Hubbardton Animated Map]
• [Hubbardton: Vermont's Battle]
• [Saratoga campaign]
• [Burgoyne's Invasion: Saratoga Campaign of 1777]
1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
• [ XYZ Affair]
• [Quasi-War]
• [The XYZ Affair]
1807 – The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
• [Treaties of Tilsit]
• [LINKTEXT]
• [Dramatization of Second Treaty] (click autotranslate for English subtitles) [Complete Napoleon 2002 Miniseries] (in English)
1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
• [New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)]
• [Charles Ives: Study No. 9 ("The Anti-Abolitionist Riots")] (musical tribute)
1846 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
• [Conquest of California]
• [Initial Conquest | California History [ep.1]]
• [The Mexican-American War - Explained in 16 minutes]
1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]
• [The Lincoln Conspirators] (Slideshow)
• [The Trial and Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators]
1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
• [Katipunan]
• [Philippine Revolution]
• [What was: The Filipino/Philippine Revolution]
1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• [Newlands Resolution]
• [Territory of Hawaii]
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• [Ziegfeld Follies]
• [broadway history- Ziegfield]
• [Lucille Ball Reflects On Being Fired By Florenz Ziegfeld | The Dick Cavett Show]
1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
• [North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911]
1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
• [First Battle of the Isonzo]
• [Life On The Isonzo Front I THE GREAT WAR On The Road]
1915 – Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Henry Pedris/a>]
1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Otto Frederick Rohwedder]
• [Otto Frederick Rohwedder | Automatic Bread-Slicing | #studio64podcasts | #socialtechpioneers]
• [Sliced Bread: Where did it come from? | Stuff of Genius]
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• [Wikipewdia Bio: Henry J. Kaiser]
• [Hoover Dam Construction: Boulder Dam (Part I) (1931) - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage]
• [Six Companies, Inc.]
1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• [Marco Polo Bridge Incident]
• [Archive newsreel about the Marco Polo Bridge incident]
• [Marco Polo Bridge Incident - The First Battle of WWII]
1937 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
• [Peel Commission]
1941 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
• [The 1940 Occupation of Iceland]
• [American Marines Invaded Iceland in 1941]
• [Occupation of Iceland]
1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• [Wikipedia: Banzai charge]
• [Battle of Saipan]
• [100 Year Old Army Veteran Describes the Largest Japanese Banzai Charge Ever! (Battle of Saipan)]
• [Banzai Tank Charge - Saipan 1944]
• [Newsreel: Aftermath of Japanese Banzai charge on Saipan, Mariana Islands during WWII]
1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• [Howard Hughes XF-11 Plane Crash Beverly Hills CA July 11 1946] (Newsreel)
• [Hughes XF-11]
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• [President Ronald Reagan's announcement of Sandra Day O'Connor as a Supreme Court nominee]
• [Sandra Day O'Connor interview (2002)]
• [Wikipedia: Sandra Day O'Connor]
• [First: Sandra Day O’Connor, An American Life]
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
1987 - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Oliver North]
• [Iran-Contra Hearings - Oliver North Testimony (1987)]
• [Congressional committees investigating the Iran–Contra affair]
• [What Was the Iran-Contra Affair? | History]
1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful).
• [Phobos 1]
1990 - 1st 'Three Tenors' concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome; recording becomes world's best-selling classical record.
• [Concert]
• [The Three Tenors]
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers.
1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
• [Opportunity (rover)]
• [NASA Mars Rovers Website]
• [Launch Video]
2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
• [Wikipedia: 7 July 2005 London bombings]
• [7/7 London Bombings: 10 Years On] (SkyNews)
• [7/7 London Bombings: How Story Unfolded On Sky News]
2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
2019 – The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France.
2020 - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announces he has tested positive for COVID-19.
2020 - Texas records more than 10,000 daily cases of COVID-19 for the 1st time
2020 - India surpasses Russia to become the world's third-worst affected country, daily COVID-19 cases exceeding 20,000 and total cases over 700,000
2020 - Violent protests in Belgrade, Serbia, at government announcement of weekend lockdown due to COVID-19 surge
2021 - Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated by a squad of gunmen at his home in Pétion-Ville.
• [BBC News | Haiti president's assassination: What we know so far]
• [CBS News (Youtube)]
• [Al Jazeera (Youtube)]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, July 07, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla' --->
Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla' --->
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