Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Hot high pressure will weaken over the region today. A pattern change begins to evolve by Thursday, as a cold front approaches from the northwest, then becomes stationary across our region for several days. This will keep shower and thunderstorm chances elevated through at least early next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 3am. Lows in the mid 60s. Calm windss. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday
Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid 80s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 7pm and 10pm. Lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Highs near 80. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2am and 4am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms before 4am, then a slight chance of showers. Widespread fog, mainly after 5am. Lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 10pm, then a chance of showers after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midmorning. Chance of rain is 60%.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 70%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the lower 80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Highs near 80. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 11pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs near 80. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a chance of showers. Widespread fog, mainly after 5am. Lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Friday
A chance of showers before 10am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 10am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Friday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed Jul 17 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (2.6 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (0.5out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for July 17th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin in 1980
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Highlands in 1904 also a state record)
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.04 inches in Highlands in 1963
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 July 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 17th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1902
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Highlands, Macon County in 1904
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.90 inches in Raleigh, Wake County in 2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 109°F in Albemarle, Stanly County on 07-28-1940
Lowest Temperature 32°F in Celo, Yancey County on 07-10-1961
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands, Macon County on 07-29-1879
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
July 2024 Schedule
7-20-24--Jim Austin's Classic Country Band--Always a favorite here at The Frog and elsewhere. They often pack the house! This multi-member group has all the classic country hits that you don't hear on the radio anymore.
7-27-24—Charlie Simmons & Paul Linser--Two accomplished finger-style guitar pickers that have some great songs in their line-up. You'll love their acoustic sound! Their music will take you from the ranges of the Midwest to the Southeastern region of the country. Welcome back, guys.
For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.
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.
News Briefing
---NATIONAL---
U.S. intelligence indicates foreign plot to kill Trump | NBC News
Some Democrats call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign following corruption trial verdict | ABC News
• Jury convicts Senator Bob Menendez on all federal bribery counts [Courthouse News Service]
• Three days after attempted assassination, Trump shooter remains an elusive enigma [AP News]
• Alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump led Secret Service to increase security around him in recent weeks [NBC News]
• Why Is the Oil Industry Booming? [New York Times (via Yahoo News)]
• Biden seriously considering proposals on Supreme Court term limits, ethics code, AP sources say [AP News]
• Exclusive: Four in five Americans fear country is sliding into chaos, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds [Reuters]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Republican National Convention (Day 2) | C-SPAN
Speaker Johnson: We are uniting today as Americans after Trump assassination attempt | Fox News
Key moments from night 2 of the 2024 RNC | PBS NewsHour
Why Trump wanted Nikki Haley at the RNC | Fox Business
The effort to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol | ABC News
Republican National Convention (Day 3) | C-SPAN
• A new kind of Republican Party is forming at the RNC [Politico]
• Kennedy and West third-party ballot drives are pushed by secretive groups and Republican donors [AP News]
• In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Camp [New York Times (via Yahoo News)]
• With Trump VP pick J.D. Vance, Silicon Valley conservatives land a 'tech bro' on the ticket [Reuters]
• Nikki Haley endorses Trump in show of unity at RNC [CBS News]
• Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's feud erupts at Republican convention [NBC News]
Washington Today (7-16-24): Sen. Menendez convicted on federal charges; GOP Nat'l Convention Day 2 | C-SPAN
Global National: July 16, 2024 | Toronto hit by major flooding, thousands without power
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 16, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | July 16, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 16, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 16, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
SpaceX's Booster 12 Begins Testing, Starship V2 Begins Stacking, & a week of launch anomalies | Matt Lowne
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 12 to 19: An occultation in Virgo [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 12 – 21 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Meade and Orion Cease Operations — Maybe [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Live Links With Friends July 15 2024 - Hardware, AI, Gov, Biz, You Name IT | Level1 Techs
Unfolding Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked - DTNS 4807 | Daily Tech News Show
Booster 12 Placed on the Orbital Launch Mount for Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica | NASA Spaceflight
On This Day
July 17th is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 167 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1048 – Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1203 – The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
• [Wikipedia: Fourth Crusade]
• [Siege of Constantinople (1203)]
• [Fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire by 1203]
• [The Crusade That Ruined Everything]
1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.
1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Castillon]
• [Battle of Castillon 1453 AD - Hundred Years' War]
• [Wikipedia: Hundred Years' War]
1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1762 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1821 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• [Wikipedia: Execution of the Romanov family]
• [Brutal Execution of the Romanovs | History]
1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
1919 – The form of government in the Republic of Finland was officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.
1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
• [Wikipedia: Altona Bloody Sunday]
• [GERMANY: Bloody Sunday]
1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• [Wikipedia: Port Chicago disaster]
• [Aerial Views Of Damage Caused By Port Chicago Disaster, 7/1944 (full) ]
• [The 1944 Port Chicago Disaster]
• [Remembering Port Chicago]
• [Once There Was a Town: The Port Chicago Story]
1944 – World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
• [Wikipedia: Potsdam Conference]
• [The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began]
• [Potsdam: Agreement to Settle Allied Victory in WWII] (History Roundtable)
• [President Truman Discusses the Potsdam Conference]
• [The Cold War: The Potsdam Conference 1945 - Truman, Attlee and Stalin]
• [Potsdam 1945 - War is Over]
1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• [Ronald Reagan at the Opening of Disneyland Park]
1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• [Little Feller (nuclear tests)]
• [M388 Davy Crockett Operational Test]
• [The Davy Crockett: America's Tactical Nuclear Weapon]
1968 – Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.
1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
1985 – Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1998 – The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2000 – During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
2001 – Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
2006 – The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
2018 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednuesday, July 17, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Speaker Johnson: We are uniting today as Americans after Trump assassination attempt | Fox News
Key moments from night 2 of the 2024 RNC | PBS NewsHour
Why Trump wanted Nikki Haley at the RNC | Fox Business
The effort to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol | ABC News
Republican National Convention (Day 3) | C-SPAN
• A new kind of Republican Party is forming at the RNC [Politico]
• Kennedy and West third-party ballot drives are pushed by secretive groups and Republican donors [AP News]
• In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Camp [New York Times (via Yahoo News)]
• With Trump VP pick J.D. Vance, Silicon Valley conservatives land a 'tech bro' on the ticket [Reuters]
• Nikki Haley endorses Trump in show of unity at RNC [CBS News]
• Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's feud erupts at Republican convention [NBC News]
Washington Today (7-16-24): Sen. Menendez convicted on federal charges; GOP Nat'l Convention Day 2 | C-SPAN
Global National: July 16, 2024 | Toronto hit by major flooding, thousands without power
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 16, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | July 16, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 16, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 16, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
SpaceX's Booster 12 Begins Testing, Starship V2 Begins Stacking, & a week of launch anomalies | Matt Lowne
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 12 to 19: An occultation in Virgo [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 12 – 21 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Meade and Orion Cease Operations — Maybe [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Live Links With Friends July 15 2024 - Hardware, AI, Gov, Biz, You Name IT | Level1 Techs
Unfolding Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked - DTNS 4807 | Daily Tech News Show
Booster 12 Placed on the Orbital Launch Mount for Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica | NASA Spaceflight
On This Day
July 17th is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 167 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1048 – Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1203 – The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
• [Wikipedia: Fourth Crusade]
• [Siege of Constantinople (1203)]
• [Fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire by 1203]
• [The Crusade That Ruined Everything]
1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.
1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Castillon]
• [Battle of Castillon 1453 AD - Hundred Years' War]
• [Wikipedia: Hundred Years' War]
1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1762 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1821 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• [Wikipedia: Execution of the Romanov family]
• [Brutal Execution of the Romanovs | History]
1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
1919 – The form of government in the Republic of Finland was officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.
1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
• [Wikipedia: Altona Bloody Sunday]
• [GERMANY: Bloody Sunday]
1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• [Wikipedia: Port Chicago disaster]
• [Aerial Views Of Damage Caused By Port Chicago Disaster, 7/1944 (full) ]
• [The 1944 Port Chicago Disaster]
• [Remembering Port Chicago]
• [Once There Was a Town: The Port Chicago Story]
1944 – World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
• [Wikipedia: Potsdam Conference]
• [The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began]
• [Potsdam: Agreement to Settle Allied Victory in WWII] (History Roundtable)
• [President Truman Discusses the Potsdam Conference]
• [The Cold War: The Potsdam Conference 1945 - Truman, Attlee and Stalin]
• [Potsdam 1945 - War is Over]
1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• [Ronald Reagan at the Opening of Disneyland Park]
1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• [Little Feller (nuclear tests)]
• [M388 Davy Crockett Operational Test]
• [The Davy Crockett: America's Tactical Nuclear Weapon]
1968 – Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.
1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
1985 – Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1998 – The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2000 – During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
2001 – Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
2006 – The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
2018 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednuesday, July 17, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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