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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A weak, dry front will push into our area from the north early this morning, bringing only temporary slightly cooler temperatures for today. The big high to our west will make one more eastward push into our region late in the week. Expect near record hot temperatures on Friday, before a pattern change brings a stronger cold front across the area on Saturday night or Sunday to finally cool us down below normal for early next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 60s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming light and variable before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 70.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
Aurora Highlights from the G3 Solar Storm and A Fast Wind Watch | Solar Storm Forecast 13 August 2023
Back to Top • The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t [ARS TECHNICA]
• August 17, 2023) NOAA doubles the chances for a nasty Atlantic hurricane season due to hot ocean, tardy El Nino [AP News]
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 Wed Aug 23 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Franklin, located over the east-central Caribbean Sea. The Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Harold, located inland over northern Mexico.
1. Eastern Tropical Atlantic (AL92):
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue in association with a tropical wave located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for some development late this week, and a tropical depression could form over the weekend while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.
2. Central Tropical Atlantic:
An area of low pressure centered several hundred miles east- northeast of the Leeward Islands (the remnants of former Tropical Storm Emily) is producing a large area of disorganized thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are forecast to become more conducive for development in a day or so, and this system could regenerate into a tropical depression or tropical storm late this week or this weekend when the system moves northward over the subtropical central Atlantic. For additional information on this system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent.
After Hilary It Is Time to Watch the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (August 21st, 2023) | hurricanetrack
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Almanac
PM2.5 AQI is 50 (GOOD/CODE GREEN) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 51 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW)
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.9 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.9 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for August 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1969
Greatest Rainfall 4.02 inches in Highlands in 1967
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 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 23rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.59 inches in Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County in 1967
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
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)
8/19/23—Charley Simmons—Award-winning finger-style guitarist of Utah & 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 & 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 & 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
People across North Carolina feel the effect of Medicaid expansion delay | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Challenge Hearing in Macon County Disqualifies Candidate for Highlands Board of Commissioners [Macon Media]
• Wake DA again says no basis for criminal investigation into NC House Speaker Moore (video) [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]
• Blue Ridge Parkway: A billion-dollar breath of fresh air for local economies and visitors [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Mark Meadows seeks to delay surrender, asks federal court to block his Georgia arrest [WLOS-TV (Asheville Citizen-Times]
• McClure and Welch decorations Sept. 4 [Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
---Recent News Recap---
August 21, 2023
NC lawmakers pass changes to election laws | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Next betting push in North Carolina: Play casino games on your phone [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Homelessness surges by 11% nationwide largely due to cost of living, evictions, report says [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC) ]
• Hospitals sued thousands of patients in North Carolina for unpaid bills, report finds [BPR]
• High bids put Highlands Middle School project on hold [Smoky Mountain News]
• Victims of 2016 Gatlinburg wildfire score major victory in lawsuit against Park Service [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners (August 2023) [Macon Media]
• Friends of the Greenway Update County Commissioners on the Use of County Property [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
On The Media: News About Journalism, Media Literacy, and Ethics in Journalism Search of 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer's house that contributed to her death | Marion County Record
• Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded [Scientific American]
• 98-year-old woman confronts police raiding her home [CNN]
• Trouble in Wyoming [Columbia Journalism Review]
• How to interview vulnerable sources without exploiting them [Poynter]
• The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 08/22/2023 [Media Bias/Fact Check/a>]
Washington Today (8-22-23): Pres. Biden launches ‘most affordable ever’ student loan repayment plan | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 22, 2023 | BC wildfire evacuees stunned – "It's like a nuclear bomb went off"
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - August 22
PBS NewsHour full episode, (August 22, 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.
COVID MANDATES RETURN: Georgia College Requiring Masks Despite ZERO Infections On Campus | The Hill
• Phase III Pivotal comparative clinical trial of intranasal (iNCOVACC) and intramuscular COVID 19 vaccine (Covaxin®) [Nature]
• Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike [The Guardian (UK) ]
• Highly mutated COVID virus variant BA.2.86 showing up in multiple countries [CBC]
• TWiV 1036: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1037: Antibodies, the good (CoV), the bad (Ad), the beautiful [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from August 18 to 25: The Moon visits the Scorpion [Astronomy Magazine]
Chandrayaan-3 Updates: It All Boils Down To Today, School Children Await Historic Landing | India Today
• Google’s plan to purge inactive accounts isn’t sitting well with some users [CNBC]
• Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Features Associated With Incident and Prevalent Parkinson Disease [Neurology®]
• Why the Nation's Largest School District Is Making Virtual School a Permanent Option [Time Magazine]
• The roar of Rancho La Brea? Comparative anatomy of modern and fossil felid hyoid bones [JOurnal of Morphology]
• A Pennsylvania court says state police can’t hide how it monitors social media [AP News]
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 23 2023: Supercon-downer | Level1 Techs
Foldapalooza - DTNS 4588 | Daily Tech News Show
Maybe She's Born With It? Maybe It's Coverscreen! - Android Faithful #7 | Daily Tech News Show
It's Been There All Along | Kennedy Space Center Flyover | NASA Spaceflight
How Old Could the First Alien Civilizations Be? | John Michael Godier
Coder 532: Take It to the Limit | Jupiter Broadcasting
Life and Death at the heart of Nazism - On the Homefront 018 | World War Two
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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 21 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for August 21st ]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 545 [Al Jazeera]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 544: Ukraine to receive 42 F-16 fighter jets – Zelenskyy [Euromaiden Press]
How do the Russian and Ukrainian Economies Cope? | Kings and Generals
• Poland's leader: Russia moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus [News-Press NOW]
• Russia’s General Surovikin dismissed as head of aerospace forces: Reports [Al Jazeera]
• LIve Updates: Ukrainian pilots begin F-16 training in Denmark [DW News]
• Drone hits Moscow building and two drones downed - officials [BBC News]
• HOUR BY HOUR: 🔴 Liveblog: Russian drone attack hits grain facilities in Ukraine's Odesa region[xxx]
Russian air defences down two drones near Moscow, mayor says | Al Jazeera
Will there soon be more BRICS countries? | DW Analysis
Russian armored column massacred | Military Mind | TVP World
Counting The Dead: How Many Russians Have Really Died in Ukraine | Warographics
Reports: Ukraine uses 'Mini-Grads' against Russia in Zaporizhzhia | Russia-Ukraine War | WION
🔴 (redacted) The Combat Footage Show: Bradley Assaults, Russian Assaults, Drifting Competitions
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Within Six Months A Million Russian Soldiers On The Polish Border | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Drone strikes Moscow’s financial hub – mayor [Russia Today]
• Russian missile forces annihilate three railway cars with Ukrainian ammo [Pravda]
• Putin describes situation along line of contact as stable [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
August 23rd is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 130 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)
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.[citation needed]
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
• [Siege of Jerusalem (1244)]
• [The Fall of Jerusalem and the Battle of La Forbie, 1244]
1268 – The Battle of Tagliacozzo marks the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William Wallace]
• [The BRUTAL Execution Of William Wallace - 'Braveheart']
• [The Death and Legacy of William Wallace]
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
• [Siege of Moscow (1382)]
• [List of conflicts in Eastern Europe during Turco-Mongol rule]
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre | Episode 38 | Lineage]
• [Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in History and Memory by Barbara Diefendorf]
1595 – Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Story of Michael the Brave ⚔️ ALL PARTS 1 - 5]
• [Battle of Călugăreni (23 August 1595) - Wallachia vs Ottoman Empire] (dramatizationno subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 1 - Calugareni (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 2 - Unirea (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Gifu Castle]
• [Battle of Gifu Castle]
1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1741 – Eruption of Oshima–ÅŒshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• [Wikipedia: Proclamation of Rebellion]
• [Text of Proclaimation]
• [Proclamation of Rebellion - John Adams] (Daramatization)
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• [Wikipedia: State of Franklin]
• [Lecture: State of Franklin and Washington to Jefferson]
• [The Lost State of Franklin! - What The History?!]
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1864 – American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• [Wikipedia: Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]
• [A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3]
• [British historian Roger Moorhouse on the impact of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its Secret Protocols]
• [Why Germany and the Soviet Union Became "Allies": the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)]
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Battlefield S1/E4 - The Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 - World War II DOCUMENTARY]
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
• [Freckleton air disaster]
• [The Freckleton Disaster - The Story Behind The Tragedy ]
• [Freckleton Disaster]
1945 – World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1954 – First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• [Wikipedia: Lunar Orbiter 1]
• [Lunar Orbiter 1 Photo Gallery]
• [NASA Film of Program]
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• [Wikipedia: Salad Bowl strike]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [PDF of Article Written at the Time]
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.[4]
1975 – The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands. This is called the Baltic Way or Baltic Chain.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
• [ABC News: 8/23/90: British Hostages in Iraq]
• [Iraq TV Shows Saddam Visiting Hostages; Some Smile, Others Wary]
• [1990: Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage showT]
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
• [CERN: The birth of the Web]
• [W3.ORG: Tim Berners-Lee]
• [InfiniteHistoryProject MIT: Timothy Berners Lee]
• [Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web]
• [Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how he came up with the Internet | Washington Post Live]
• [Father of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee prepares 'do-over']
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang PÅ™iklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
• [2011 Virginia earthquake]
• [East Coast quake: A seismologist explains]
• [Earthquake Begins in Virginia, Rattles East Coast]
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe 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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