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GENERAL OUTLOOK
The heat will build through the end of the week as a large upper high over the Plains continues to control our weather from afar. High temperatures may flirt with records Friday and Saturday, although there is much uncertainty about how much thunderstorm activity will affect that. A surface front is expected to drop south across the region late Saturday to cool us down for the early part of next week, while providing a focus for showers and storms from Sunday through Tuesday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Franklin Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 66. Light and variable wind.
Friday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 67. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. Calm wind becoming north northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 3pm and 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. North northwest wind around 6 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 65. North northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with a high near 84. North northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 68. North northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with a high near 83. North northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the morning.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 67. Light and variable wind.
Friday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 68. North northwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 90. North northwest wind 3 to 8 mph.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 67.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 68. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Friday
Sunny, with a high near 87. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 68. West northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming north northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.
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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 Thu Aug 24 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 just east of the Turks and Caicos.
1. Central Subtropical Atlantic (Remnants of Emily):
An area of low pressure located about 1000 miles east-southeast of Bermuda (the remnants of former Tropical Storm Emily) continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are forecast to become more conducive for development later today, and this system is likely to regenerate into a tropical storm by Friday while 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...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...70 percent.
2. Eastern Tropical Atlantic (AL92):
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue in association with an area of low pressure located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Despite marginal environmental conditions, slow development is possible and the low could become a tropical depression by the weekend while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward into the central tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.
3. Northwestern Caribbean Sea:
An area of low pressure could form in a couple of days over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. Some gradual development of this system is possible over the weekend and early next week, and a tropical depression could form while it moves slowly northward across the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.
Tropical Shenanigans: Trying to Figure Out the Hurricane Season (August 23rd, 2023) | hurricanetrack
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Almanac
PM2.5 AQI is 54 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 71 (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 (9.2 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for August 24th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 95°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1983
Lowest Temperature 43°F in Highlands in 1930
Greatest Rainfall 2.50 inches in Highlands in 1961
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 106°F in Concord, Cabarrus County on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 37°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.16 inches in Hendersonville, Henderson County on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 24th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Concord, Cabarrus County in 1983
Lowest Temperature 37°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 9.16 inches in Hendersonville, Henderson County in 1961
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
North Carolina Drivers just maybe 'The Worst' 😬; AAA releases new survey | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Macon County man's death ruled homicide 8 months after he was beaten by family members [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Town of Franklin Skatepark Soft Open [Macon Media]
• Sylva Pride Pageant event elicits threats, controversy [Smoky Mountain News]
• Some concerned building code freeze could leave new builds in NC decades out of date [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• ‘Move our state forward.’ NC Gov. Cooper urges Republicans to pass delayed budget [Raleigh News and Observer]
---Recent News Recap---
August 23, 2023
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]
• 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
Watch the full Republican primary debate | Fox News
Meet the Press Special: First GOP Debate | NBC News
• Nvidia’s blowout earnings report shows chipmaker is gobbling up all the profit in AI [CNBC]
• Biden Incentives for Foreign Investment Are Benefiting Factories [New York Times]
• American workers are demanding almost $80,000 a year to take a new job [CNBC]
• Federal judge refuses to block Georgia arrests of Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark in election case [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• In election interference case, Trump allies trickle in for surrender at Georgia jail [Courthouse News Service]
International News Headlines
Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner leader presumed dead after plane crash | BBC News
Wagner Group Embraer EMB-135BJ RA 02795 | blancolirio
• Can BRICS dethrone the US dollar? It’ll be an uphill climb, experts say [Al Jazeera]
• Refugees from Darfur: 'We left at night, barefoot, and walked to reach Chad' [Africa News]
• Ukraine 'close to victory,' Zelenskyy adviser Yermak says [DW News]
• Taiwan to begin installing domestic vertical missile launch system on Navy ships [Taiwan News]
• Massive landslide hits Kullu: Buildings collapse in Anni market area, scary video surfaces [HIndustan Times]
On The Media: News About Journalism, Media Literacy, and Ethics in Journalism Journalism Ethics | Mark Grabowski
• Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded [Scientific American]
• Police accused raided Kansas newspaper of lying to get records. A reporter used public info. [NBC News]
• What the first debate will say about Trump, Fox, and democracy [Columbia Journalism Review]
• Texas Tribune holds first layoffs in 14-year history [Poynter]
• The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 08/23/2023 [Media Bias/Fact Check]
Washington Today (8-23-23): Failed Russian coup leader Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 23, 2023 | Mystery surrounds Russian plane crash, Wagner boss' presumed death
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - August 23
PBS NewsHour full episode, (August 23, 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 EG.5 Variant: Hospitalizations on the Rise | MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY
• Phase III Pivotal comparative clinical trial of intranasal (iNCOVACC) and intramuscular COVID 19 vaccine (Covaxin®) [Nature]
• Kaiser Permanente reinstates mask mandate amid COVID-19 spike. What to know about the disease now [The Press Democrat]
• As COVID cases flare, some schools and businesses reinstate mask mandates [CBS News]
• 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 landing on the Moon | SciNews
• Tornado Cash 'laundered over $1B' in criminal crypto-coins [The Register]
• Waste coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger [New Atlas]
• You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API [ARS TECHNICA]
• Tesla's value plunged nearly $200 billion since mid-July – and Elon Musk's EV maker faces a bumpy road ahead [Insider (via Yahoo Finance)]
• Surprise: Apple now supports California’s right-to-repair [The Verge]
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
Wake Your PS5 for $200 - DTNS 4589 | Daily Tech News Show
The significance of India's successful landing on the moon’s south pole | PBS NewsHour
NASA Science Live: Psyche’s Journey to a Metal World (Official NASA Broadcast)
The complexities of artificial intelligence | World today | TVP World
Evidence For The Biggest Impact Crater on Earth At 520 km Across | Anton Petrov
How to Control a Crowd | How to Control a Crowd
How Can Microbes Protect Crops From Drought? | How Can Microbes Protect Crops From Drought?
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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 23 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for August 23rd ]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 547 [Al Jazeera]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 546: US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately [Euromaiden Press]
Ukraine deploys Bradley Fighting Vehicles in counteroffensive assault | Scripps News
• Ukraine updates: Kyiv destroys missile system in Crimea [DW News]
• Featured: Russian S-400 Complex Destroyed On Crimea (video) [Funker 530]
• Liveblog: Kremlin silent as Wagner boss Prigozhin 'killed in plane crash' [BBC News]
• Russia downs 3 combat drones in latest attempted raid on Moscow [Al Jazeera]
• 🔴 Liveblog: Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks on Moscow, grain depots [France 24]
• First light reveals debris from Prigozhin plane crash site [TVP World]
The Wagner Opera's Crash Landing Finale | William Spaniel
Wagner's Prigozhin presumed dead in jet crash | DW News
Prigozhin Is Dead: A Timeline of the Wagner Boss Since His Failed Mutiny | WSJ
Ukraine's Air Defense-hunting missiles are about to get a LOT better | Sandboxx
Ukrainians break through Russian lines and enter a village | Military Mind | TVP World
🔴 (redacted warning) The Combat Footage Show: Bradley Assaults, Russian Assaults, Drifting Competitions | Funker530 Combat Footage Show
🔴 (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
The War In Ukraine Must End Now Or The West Is Doomed | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Prigozhin plane crash: What we know so far [Russia Today]
• Yevgeny Prigozhin, PMC Wagner founder, KILLED in plane crash [Pravda]
• US embroiled in Ukrainian conflict, but Biden unable to stop it — Trump [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 129 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)
367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
1200 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1482 – The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1643 – A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
1743 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
1789 – The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1870 – The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1933 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
1941 – The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1951 – United Air Lines Flight 615 crashes near Decoto, California, killing 50 people.
1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1954 – Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1970 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2004 – Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2008 – Sixty-five passengers are killed when Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes during an emergency landing at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
2008 – A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes in Cabañas, Zacapa, Guatemala, killing 11 people.
2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
2010 – Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.
2010 – Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Makwanpur, Nepal, killing all 14 people on board.
2016 – An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, August 24, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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