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National News
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
The center of surface high pressure will begin to slowly shift east of the area today, resulting in a warming trend through Sunday. A strong, though mostly dry, cold front will cross our region on Monday, ushering in much colder air and could lead to widespread frost and freeze concerns across the mountains by the middle of the week. Continued dry weather and slowly moderating temperatures expected for the end of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11pm and midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds. The chance of rain is 20%.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the northwest increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest early in the morning around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 40s. Calm winds becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the north.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 40s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 109 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
A slight chance of showers before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11pm and 1am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 6 mph. The chance of rain is 20%.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
The coldest air of the season so far is expected to settle over the Southern Appalachians during the middle of next week. Areas of frost and possibly a light freeze in some of the valleys may occur across most of the North Carolina mountains and northeast Georgia mountains Tuesday night.
Tropical Update
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Oct 12 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Leslie, located over the central Atlantic Ocean.
1. Near the Cabo Verde Islands (AL94):
A low pressure system located a couple of hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands continues to produce an area of showers and thunderstorms on its east side. If the circulation of the system becomes better defined and the showers and thunderstorms persist, the low could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm later this morning while it moves west-northwestward. Strong upper-level winds and dry air should end the chances of development by tonight or Sunday. Heavy rains and gusty winds are occurring over the western Cabo Verde Islands, and those conditions are expected to continue for a few more hours.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.
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Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (4.0 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for October 12th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 86°F in Nantahala in 1969
Lowest Temperature 25°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2000
Greatest Rainfall 3.44 inches in Highlands in 1927
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow fell on this date)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Franklin on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1964
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 12th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 93°F in Greenville, Pitt County in 1919
Lowest Temperature 9°F in Marshall, Madison County in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 7.86 inches in Goldsboro, Wayne County in 1942
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow fell on this date)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches on Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 10-25-1990
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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)
October 2024 Schedule
10-12-24—Mike Yow—Singer/Songwriter playing the best in his own tunes and a wide range of Americana music. If you’ve not heard Mike before…...and, even if you have, you’re in for a real treat.
10-19-24—Bloodroot—Three- and Four-part harmonies are forefront in this Americana acoustical roots band. You’ll hear oldies from the 70’s & 80’s along with songs you might remember from your childhood. Zip Robertson, Crickett Woodward, Paul Davis and Judy Kirkland.
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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
NC maker of high-purity quartz returns to operations post-Helene | Queen City News
Duke Energy crews tackle tough terrain to power up Chimney Rock after Helene | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Helene Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories: In-Depth with Dan Haggerty | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Why one law professor says NC constitutional amendment unneeded [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Friday Football Frenzy: Oct. 11, 2024, scores and highlights [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Some Western NC counties hit by Helene changed early voting plans. Here are the details. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Plants thrive with some adversity in their lives [Sylva Hearald and Ruralite]
• Waynesville Apple Harvest Festival proceeds [Smoky Mountain News]
• Stunning photos: Northern lights dazzled in the Carolina skies [WBTC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
---WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AFTER HURRICANE HELENE---
What happened to mountainsides during Helene's extreme rains (30 inches or more)? | The Geo Models
Surviving Hurricane Helene: Floodwater Rescue and Life After the Storm in Asheville | The Bergamot
Info About Storm Donations & Responding to Feedback from Viewers | Celebrating Appalachia
Update: How It's Going Over Here In Western NC (& how you can help!) | Keeping Afloat with the Joneses
Living in Asheville NC - It’s All About Community [Post Storm Update] | Living in Asheville
Triplets, their cat Pumpkin ride out Helene on kitchen counter | WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)
11 members of Buncombe Co. family killed in landslide | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Misinformation complicates Hurricane Helene recovery efforts | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
• Rapid Reaction: Historic Flooding Follows Helene in Western NC [North Carolina State Climate Office]
• No water, power or formula: moms struggle to feed babies after Hurricane Helene [The Guardian (UK)]
• Man who left Florida to escape hurricanes nearly loses everything to Helene [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Liveblog Updates: 121 fatalities in NC; Asheville details repair milestone for water system [BPR News]
• Haywood County revises curfew [Smoky Mountain News]
• Helene devastates Garren Creek, 'Craigtown', killing 13, including 11 from one family [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• A ‘second wave’ of medical issues may slam the region in Helene’s wake, disaster response officials caution [Mountain Xpress]
• Need for donations and volunteers still strong two weeks after Helene [WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)]
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Videos and links to news articles
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (4.0 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for October 12th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 86°F in Nantahala in 1969
Lowest Temperature 25°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2000
Greatest Rainfall 3.44 inches in Highlands in 1927
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow fell on this date)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Franklin on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1964
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 12th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 93°F in Greenville, Pitt County in 1919
Lowest Temperature 9°F in Marshall, Madison County in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 7.86 inches in Goldsboro, Wayne County in 1942
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow fell on this date)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches on Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 10-25-1990
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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)
October 2024 Schedule
10-12-24—Mike Yow—Singer/Songwriter playing the best in his own tunes and a wide range of Americana music. If you’ve not heard Mike before…...and, even if you have, you’re in for a real treat.
10-19-24—Bloodroot—Three- and Four-part harmonies are forefront in this Americana acoustical roots band. You’ll hear oldies from the 70’s & 80’s along with songs you might remember from your childhood. Zip Robertson, Crickett Woodward, Paul Davis and Judy Kirkland.
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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
NC maker of high-purity quartz returns to operations post-Helene | Queen City News
Duke Energy crews tackle tough terrain to power up Chimney Rock after Helene | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Helene Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories: In-Depth with Dan Haggerty | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Why one law professor says NC constitutional amendment unneeded [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Friday Football Frenzy: Oct. 11, 2024, scores and highlights [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Some Western NC counties hit by Helene changed early voting plans. Here are the details. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Plants thrive with some adversity in their lives [Sylva Hearald and Ruralite]
• Waynesville Apple Harvest Festival proceeds [Smoky Mountain News]
• Stunning photos: Northern lights dazzled in the Carolina skies [WBTC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
---WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AFTER HURRICANE HELENE---
What happened to mountainsides during Helene's extreme rains (30 inches or more)? | The Geo Models
Surviving Hurricane Helene: Floodwater Rescue and Life After the Storm in Asheville | The Bergamot
Info About Storm Donations & Responding to Feedback from Viewers | Celebrating Appalachia
Update: How It's Going Over Here In Western NC (& how you can help!) | Keeping Afloat with the Joneses
Living in Asheville NC - It’s All About Community [Post Storm Update] | Living in Asheville
Triplets, their cat Pumpkin ride out Helene on kitchen counter | WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)
11 members of Buncombe Co. family killed in landslide | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Misinformation complicates Hurricane Helene recovery efforts | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
• Rapid Reaction: Historic Flooding Follows Helene in Western NC [North Carolina State Climate Office]
• No water, power or formula: moms struggle to feed babies after Hurricane Helene [The Guardian (UK)]
• Man who left Florida to escape hurricanes nearly loses everything to Helene [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Liveblog Updates: 121 fatalities in NC; Asheville details repair milestone for water system [BPR News]
• Haywood County revises curfew [Smoky Mountain News]
• Helene devastates Garren Creek, 'Craigtown', killing 13, including 11 from one family [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• A ‘second wave’ of medical issues may slam the region in Helene’s wake, disaster response officials caution [Mountain Xpress]
• Need for donations and volunteers still strong two weeks after Helene [WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)]
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Videos and links to news articles
Heat kills more Americans than other natural disasters, yet deaths are undercounted | ABC News
China Is Outspending the U.S. to Achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Energy | WSJ (U.S. vs. China)
• Federal personnel are facing threats during hurricane response, DHS chief warns [Government Executive]
• Hurricane Milton updates: 16 dead across Florida in storm's aftermath [ABC News (autoplaying video)]
• Content creators riding out Hurricane Milton brought in millions of views and a horde of new followers [NBC News]
• Renowned scientist's ashes dropped into eye of Category 5 Hurricane Milton as lasting tribute [CBS News]
• A Retirement Community Prepared for a Hurricane. Tornadoes Came Instead. [New York Times]
• Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs, delay first 777X jet as strike hits finances [Reuters (via Yahoo News)]
• 7-Eleven shutting down nearly 450 underperforming stores across North America [Fox News]
• Senators call on TikTok to produce documents in response to NPR report [NPR]
• Montana businessman gets 2 years in prison for role in Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Trump holds campaign rally in Reno, Nevada | PBS News Hour
Vice President Kamala Harris holds campaign rally in the Valley | ABC 15 Arizona
• Obama sends stark warning message to Democrats [The Hill]
• This Stock Market Stat Has Predicted 83% of Presidential Elections in the Past Century [Nasdaq]
• Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says [The Independent (via MSN) ]
• Group with close ties to Trump transition says it was targeted in cyber attack [Politico]
• Are male voters reluctant to vote for a woman? Harris’ backers are confronting the question head on [Courthouse News Service]
• DOJ sues Virginia for allegedly purging noncitizens from voting rolls too close to election [Fox News]
International News Headlines
What support does it need most from its allies now? | DW News
Nihon Hidankyo announced as Nobel Peace Prize Winner | BBC News
• 'Waiting for this day': 100-yr-old rejoices after A-bomb survivor group wins Nobel Prize [The Mainichi]
• Tears, joy from A-bomb survivors as group wins Nobel Prize [Kyodo News]
• 🔴 Liveblog: Israel observes Yom Kippur amid condemnation over Lebanon strikes[France 24]
• Moscow expands ties with Tehran, as Israel weighs retaliatory strike on Iran [Jerusalem Post]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Russo-Ukrainian War, day 961: Russia redeploys 50,000 troops to Kursk Oblast [Euromaidan Press]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• Medvedev doubts Trump can end Ukraine conflict on US terms
Moscow will have more of a say than Washington on how the conflict with Kiev ends, the former Russian president has said. [Russia Today]
• Russia presents new Berdysh UAV to start new chapter in unmanned aviation [Pravda]
• Russian, Iranian positions on international events very often close — Putin [TASS: Russian News Agency]
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Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, October 11, 2024
2024 Campaign Trail: Three Weeks to Election Day | C-SPAN
Washington Today (10-11-24): Donald Trump wants death penalty if illegal migrant kills U.S. citizen | C-SPAN
Global National: Oct 11, 2024 | Millions in Florida could be without electricity and water for weeks
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 11, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Oct. 11, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 11, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Oct. 11, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Is Our Universe Eating Other Universes? | John Michael Godier
The Level1 Show October 11th: Keep On Leaking On | Level1 Techs
Data Disaster Preparedness - DTNS 4874 | Daily Tech News Show
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from October 11 to 18: 2024’s third Super Moon rises [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 11 – 20 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
See Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher 10/14/2024 BONUS | Astronomy Magazine
• Get Ready for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — The Best Is Yet to Come! [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is rising higher in the evening sky. Here’s where to look [Astronomy Magazine]
Can SpaceX Catch a Starship Super Heavy? (Like Falcon 9?) | NASA Spaceflight
Can A Giant Potato Cannon Throw Things Into Space Cheaper Than Rockets? Longshot Think so! | Scott Manley
Solar System: Strange Worlds | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NASA’s Search For Life in a Radiation Death Zone | Europa Clipper | Veritasium
• We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math
Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI [The Atlantic]
• US labor board accuses Apple of restricting workers' Slack, social media use [Reuters]
• Tesla’s Robovan is the surprise of the night [The Verge]
• OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff [The Register]
• OpenAI sees continued attempts to use AI models for election interference [The Hill]
• Anti-AI Countermeasures in Warfare: Terra Incognita for IHL? [Articles of War (West Point)]
• X (Twitter) says ‘alert’ to manipulation efforts after pro-Russia bots report [Straits Times]
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On This Day
October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 80 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)
539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1279 – The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
1398 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1748 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1849 – The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
1856 – An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
1871 – The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
1890 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1959 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1960 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1967 – A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1971 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
1974 – President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
1977 – Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1992 – A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1996 – New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
1997 – The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
2010 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
2012 – The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
2018 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2019 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, October 12, 2024
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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On This Day
October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 80 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)
539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1279 – The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
1398 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1748 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1849 – The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
1856 – An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
1871 – The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
1890 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1959 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1960 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1967 – A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1971 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
1974 – President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
1977 – Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1992 – A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1996 – New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
1997 – The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
2010 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
2012 – The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
2018 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2019 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, October 12, 2024
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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