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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A warm front lifts north across the area today before a cold front tracks out of the west on Monday. These two systems will act to increase shower and thunderstorm chances, as well as the humidity. Strong to severe storms will be possible each afternoon and evening. Heat indices should climb into the triple digits east of the mountains, especially on Monday. The front looks to stall just south and east of the forecast area Tuesday into Wednesday leading to drier conditions. Shower and thunderstorm chances return for Thursday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Franklin Area
Today
Franklin Area
Today
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light winds out of the northwest becoming west 5 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 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, mainly before 9pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then becoming partly cloudy toward daybreak, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 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
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms between midnight and 3am, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 40%.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 81. West southwest wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 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, mainly before 9pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
A slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with highs near 89. Light northwest wind becoming west 9 to 14 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 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, mainly before 9pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Winds out of the northwest 7 to 11 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 62. North northwest wind 3 to 7 mph.
Wednesday
A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 2pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 85. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm in the afternoon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Some storms could be severe, with large hail, damaging winds, and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs i9n the lower 80s. Light winds out of the southwest early in the morning increasing and shifting to come out of the west 10 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 9pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in tjhe mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 2pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Severe storms are likely this afternoon and evening across the forecast area. Damaging winds are the main threat, but large hail and isolated tornadoes will also be possible. Cloud-to-ground lightning, locally heavy rainfall, and gusty winds are expected with any thunderstorms that develop. Additionally, heat indices may reach the lower 100s east of the mountains Monday afternoon.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
A 1,2,3-Punch of Solar Storms Speed to Earth | Space Weather News 04 August 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 Mon Aug 7 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in 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)
A Look at ACE and Why It Is Important and Could Help to Predict the 2023 Season (August 4th, 2023) | hurricanetrack
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Almanac
PM2.5 AQI is 45 (GOOD/CODE GREEN) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 45 (GOOD/CODE GREEN)
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (5.9 out of 12) today with Grasses, Nettle, and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (7.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for August 7th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 98°F in Highlands in 1930
Lowest Temperature 43°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1950
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.64 inches in Highlands in 1937
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 August Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 7th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Dobbins Heights, Richmond County in 2007
Lowest Temperature 32°F in Celo, Yancey County in 1950
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.16 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1978
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 August Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Saturdays in August from 11am to 1pm
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
8/12/23—Melinda Pennington and Diane Chermer—Blues ain’t got no clues! Enjoy the music of two of the Shifty Sisters Group who are taking the time to bring forward some of their originals that we don’t always hear with the Group.
8/19/23—Charley Simmons—Award-winning finger-style guitarist of Utah and 2 other states. You’ll be amazed at the sounds this guy gets out of a guitar! The late Chet Atkins has given this guy his blessings. 8/26/23—Zip Robertson—A Singer/Songwriter who’s journeyed from Ky to FL and up to Western NC bringing us lucky listeners acoustic music to touch our hearts. Welcome Zip!
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee and Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
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Local and State News
Hundreds of antisemitic flyers distributed around Raleigh | WRAL-Tv (Raleigh, NC)
• Monday weather forecast: Enhanced risk for damaging wind, hail, heavy rainfall [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• State budget, other major issues still undecided as NC legislature lingers into summer [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome podcast: 2023 local elections, ALEC and Florida vs. NC [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Forest plan will harm endangered bats, conservation groups say [Smoky Mountain News]
• Here's why NC State football’s Victory Day 'really means a lot' for Wolfpack and fans [Asheville Citizen-Times]
---Recent News Recap---
August 06, 2023
When should you get a flu shot? | WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)
• Track repairs in Nantahala Gorge will send more trains, business to Dillsboro in August [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Gov. Cooper says state's exclusion from final offshore wind area is 'extremely disappointing' [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• These invasive fish threaten NC waters. Here’s what to do if you catch one [https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article277427958.html]
Macon County Library Board, Aug 2023 | Macon Media
---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---
• 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
Federal court rules to restrict asylum protections for some migrants | NewsNation Prime
• Fed’s Bowman says more U.S. rate hikes likely will be needed [CNBC]
• Houston to refile cases against Food Not Bomb volunteers feeding homeless [Houston Chronicle ]
• Glacial break causes major flooding in Alaska, officials issue emergency declaration [ABC News]
• Bomb threat shuts down OHSU clinic after anti-trans information posted online [OPB]
• Trump Indictment Mystery: Where Is Mark Meadows? [WSJ]
International News Headlines
Emergency declared in Ethiopia's second-largest region Amhara | Latest World News | WION
• African leaders call for the release of Russian cereals [Africa News]
• UK hiring falls at fastest pace in over three years, wage growth slows [Reuters]
• Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan arrested: What you need to know [AL Jazeera ]
• Rice market in turmoil as India curtails exports [DW News]
• N. Korean leader's visits to arms factories apparently had 'multiple' purposes: Seoul [Yonhap News Agency]
On The Media: News About Journalism, Media Literacy, and Ethics in Journalism Joan Donovan, Ph.D. – Ethics and Misinformation | Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
• A Very Online summer [Columbia Journalism Review]
• News outlets have indictment coverage down pat, but what transcends to the weary masses? [Poynter]
• Executing the user needs model 2.0 with Dmitry Shishkin [Journalism (UK) ]
• The Dire Need for Systems-level Stories About US Foster Care: a Q and A With Journalist Roxanna Asgarian [University of Wisconsin-Madison: Center for Journalism Ethics ]
• The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 08/06/2023 (Weekend Edition) [Media Bias/Fact Check]
Washington Today (8-3-23): Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 2020 election & Jan 6 attack charges | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 6, 2023 | Toronto police criticized for response to festival violence
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - August 06
PBS NewsHour full episode, (August 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 8:14am CEST, 26 July 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 8:14am CEST, 26 July 2023, there have been 768,560,727 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,952,522 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 23 July 2023, a total of 13,474,348,801 vaccine doses have been administered.
Hospitals seeing increase in Covid-19 admissions | KFOR-TV (Oklahoma City, OK)
• Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 replicating and evolving in animals [Trends in Microbiology]
• Comity crumbles on Congress’ Covid committee [Politico]
• Why tracking COVID reinfections has waned even as more people became sick [ABC News]
TWiV 1032: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
• TWiV 1032: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1029: David Tuller on Long COVID and ME/CFS [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from August 4 to 11: View the Summer Triangle’s variables [Astronomy Magazine]
Free Excel Tutorials & How-To's | TWiT TV
• US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough [FInancial Review]
• SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster [ARS TECHNICA]
• Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes [Nature]
• Mark Zuckerberg is ‘not holding my breath’ for August 26th fight date with Elon Musk [The Verge]
• Lawsuit accuses hospital of sharing patient health data with Facebook [The Record]
Generative A.I. Will Change Everything. | Kyle Hill
• 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 August 4 2023: Hydrogen In the Streets, Helium In the Sheets | Level1 Techs
There is No Cloud, Only Zuul - DTNS 4575 | Daily Tech News Show
LK-99 And the Promise of Room Temperature Superconductors | John Michael Godier
Diamond Tweeters - Waterproof Earbuds, Photo # Sequence, Excel | TWiT TV
Space Explored Podcast 68: What happens with Antares now?
Inside the US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo | Big Business | Insider Business
Fedora Asahi, GNOME Tiling, KDE Plasma 6, systemd, Zorin, Inkscape and more Linux news! | MIchael Tunnell
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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, August 06 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for August 6th ]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 530 [Al Jazeera]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 529: Russia attacked Ukraine with Kinzhal missiles [Euromaiden Press]
Russia launches more than 70 missiles and drones at Ukraine | CBS Evening News
• Ukraine live updates: Russia launches dozens of missiles, drones [AL Jazeera ]
• Saudi Arabia hosts peace talks on Ukraine war excluding Russia [France 24 ]
• Belarus’ opposition meet in Warsaw, plans strategy against Lukashenka [TVP World]
• Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky [BBC News]
• Can Ukrainian grain be shipped to the world via Croatia? [DW News]
Russia launches massive assault on Ukraine, says Ukraine attacked Donetsk | DW News
The secret weapon that sank Russia’s warship | The Economist
Rising Tensions Put Moscow Oil Flows at Risk | Bloomberg Television
Ukraine's Peace Plan & Jeddah Talks: Understanding the Crisis with Sergei Erofeev | World Today | TVP World
Donetsk fire: Moscow says Kyiv used cluster munitions | Al Jazeera
Why Do We Call the War in Ukraine Unprovoked? - Debunking Russian Claims | Kings and Generals
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
If NATO Goes Toe-To-Toe With The Russians NATO Will Lose | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• France supplies long range missiles to Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Ukraine warns Russia: We will hit any of your Black Sea ports [Pravda]
• Battlegroup South aviation hit Ukrainian brigades by guided bombs — spokesman [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 146 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)
461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
768 – Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1479 – Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Guinegate (1479)]
• [Dramatization] (English subtitles)
• [Wikipedia: War of the Burgundian Succession]
1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• [Battle of Gangut]
• [Historical Underwater Video Marathon: Battle of Gangut]
• [Gangut: The Tide Breaker. Re-enactment of the first naval victory of Peter the Great]
1743 – The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed the Purple Heart.
• [Wikipedia: Badge of Military Merit]
• [Purple Heart]
• [Almanac: Purple Heart]
• [National Purple Heart Hall of Honor]
1786 – The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• [Wikipedia: Indian reservation]
• [History.com: Indian Reservations]
• [How Independent Are Native American Reservations?]
1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1890 – Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1933 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• [Wikipedia: Guadalcanal campaign]
• [Battlefield S4/E5 - The Battle of Guadalcanal]
• [Guadalcanal Naval Campaign] (8 video playlist)
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• [Wikipedia: Kon-Tiki expedition]
• [Wikipedia: Thor Heyerdahl]
• [The Tangaroa Expedition (The Kon-Tiki Expedition) 2012 Documentary]
1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• [Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]
• [The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)] (Simple History)
• [The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | History]
• [CBS News - Gulf of Tonkin incident - 1964-08-05]
1969 – Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1987 – Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1993 – Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1995 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
1997 – Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• [Wikipedia: STS-85]
• [STS 85 launch August 7 1997]
• [STS-85 Mission Highlights Resources Tape]
• [STS-85 Postflight Presentation]
• [STS-85 Day 01 Highlights]
1997 – Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• [Wikipedia: 1998 United States embassy bombings]
• [Al Qaeda's First Ever Attack: Nairobi Embassy]
• [1998 US Embassy Blasts Suspect Dead]
1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan, aka The Second Chechen War or the War of Dagestan.
• [Wikipedia: War of Dagestan]
• [Harvard International Review: The Bleeding Puzzle of Chechnya and Dagestan]
• [Feature History - Chechen Wars (1/2)]
• [Feature History - Chechen Wars (2/2)]
• [The Second Chechen War - Documentary - (Remasterd)]
2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
• [Wikipedia: Russo-Georgian War]
• [Russia vs. Georgia: The War That Shook The Caucasus]
• [Russo-Georgian War - Europe's First War of the 21st Century | Warographics]
• [Feature History - Russo-Georgian War]
• [Wikipedia: Second Chechen War]
• [Inside Russia's Cold War With Another Neighbor, Georgia]
2020 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, August 07, 2023
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.
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