Weather Briefing for Saturday, July 10, 2021

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OUTLOOK

A weak cold front will lay over to the north of the region tonight through Saturday. Warm and moist high pressure will set up over the southeast through the rest of the weekend and persist throughout next week.


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Local News

Macon County Emergency Managment reports an erosion-related involving what they classify as a high hazard dam in the Burnington Community on Friday. In a press release, it was reported "There is no immediate threat to properties downstream but residents in the area may notice increased turbidity and muddy water in streams north of this area leading up to the Little Tennessee River." A full copy of the press release is posted below.

PRESS RELEASE (07-09-2021)

MACON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Erosion around a spillway channel caused an incident with a high hazard dam in Macon County earlier today. Water flowed around the spillway piping causing impounded water from the dam to discharge into a nearby creek. The Burningtown Lakes dam is located on Daves Creek Road in northern Macon County. The lake has a surface area at normal pool of 4.34 acres. There was not a complete failure of the dam and no apparent flooding occurred in the area due to the loss of water. There is no immediate threat to properties downstream but residents in the area may notice increased turbidity and muddy water in streams north of this area leading up to the Little Tennessee River. The volume of water impounded has been reduced significantly and crews from Emergency Services and Burningtown-lotla Fire and Rescue will monitor the area throughout the weekend. A representative from the North Carolina Environmental Quality Dam Safety Program was on site this afternoon and the owner(s) are making arrangements to obtain engineering and other technical services to mitigate the problem. The dam underwent a safety inspection November 2018.

Franklin Town Council - July 2021



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2021 Fireworks Display in Franklin, NC [LINK]

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Local Weather

National Weather Map for Today

General forecast through Sunday Night


Franklin area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday

A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then rain and thunderstorms likely after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the southwest 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.

Sunday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Light winds out of the south. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 60%.



Highlands Plateau

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Light winds out of the west. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday

Rain and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds early increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night

Rain and thunderstorms, mainly before 10pm. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.

Monday

A chance of rain and thunderstorms before noon, then rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 2pm, then rain and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain is 70%.

Monday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 60%.

Otto area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday

Rain and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 60%.

Nantahala area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the west. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday

Rain and thunderstorms likely, then rain and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Sunday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the south. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday

Rain and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Chance of rain is 60%.

Monday Night

Rain and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of rain between 2am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 60%.

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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous Weather is not anticipated today. The impacts of the remnants of Tropical Storm ELSA will be mainly to our south and east.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Jul 10 2021

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.

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Almanac

Air Quality

Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of green.

Fire and Smoke Map
(There are no significant sources of smoke in the region as of 3am on 04-22-2021.)

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.7 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).


Weather Extremes for Macon County on July 9th


Highest Temperature 93°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1980
Lowest Temperature 43°F in Highlands in 1918
Greatest Rainfall 3.44 inches in Highlands in 1916
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)

July Weather Extremes for Macon County

Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on 07-29-1952
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlands on 07-27-1911
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on 07-29-1879
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1872

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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

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Katie Dean announces Macon Co. Townhall

Katie Dean is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th District. Katie is holding a Townhall on Thursday, July 15, 6pm – 7pm at the Big Bear Shelter [E. Main St. and Little Tennessee River].

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The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encaustic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.

For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org

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National News Roundup

Level1 News:Microsoft Is My CoPilot (07-09-2021)



Motivate to Vaccinate: National Month of Action for COVID-19 Vaccines (July 8, 2021)



President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Drawdown Efforts in Afghanistan (July 9th, 2021)



NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) - July 8th, 2021



PBS NewsHour full episode, July 9, 2021

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On This Day

July 10th is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 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)


48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania).
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Dyrrhachium]
• [Wikipedia: Caesar's Civil War]
• [Battle of Dyrrhachium 48 BC - Caesar against Pompey]
• [Caesar's Civil War ⚔️ (ALL PARTS 1 - 5) ⚔️]
• [Historia Civilis: Caesar's Civil War]

138 – Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

518 - Former peasant Justin I proclaimed Byzantine emperor in the Hippodrome, Constantinople.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Justin I]
• [Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora - From Swineherd to Emperor - Extra History - #1]

552 - Origin of Armenian calendar.
• [Wikipedia: Armenian calendar]

645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
• [Wikipedia: Isshi Incident]
• [Taika Reform]
• [The Isshi Incident: How a Murder Moved a Capital]
• [This Land is MY Land (Taika Reforms) | History of Japan 19]

988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill]
• [Wikipedia: Early Irish law]
• [Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland]
• [Irish History - Brehon Law with Pat Flannery (Full Version)]

1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Lady Godiva]
• [Who was the real Lady Godiva?]
• [Article by Don Hollway]

1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Canute IV]
• [Murder of Saint Canute IV] (Danish.net)

1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• [Wikipedia: The Great Fire of 1212]
• [Great Fire of London 1212]

1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Northampton (1460)]
• [Wreath laying to commemorate the Battle of Northampton 1460]
• [Wars of Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars]

1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Nicolau Coelho]

1512 – The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
• [Wikipedia: Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre]
• [Conquest of Navarre - 1512] (the dramatic intro is two minutes and a half long)
• [The Reconquista - Part 3 History of Navarre]

1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
• [Prince of Ning rebellion]
• [Nanchang - City of Heroes IV: A Revolt Crushed. The Prince of Ning Rebellion. [江西省 南昌市 南昌县]]

1520 - King Charles V France and King Henry VIII of England sign Treaty of Calais.
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Calais]

1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Lady Jane Grey]
• [Historic UK: Lady Jane Grey]
• [Lady Jane Grey: England's Forgotten Queen]
• [England's Forgotten Queen: Lady Jane Grey Imprisoned]
• [England's Forgotten Queen: Lady Jane Grey's Execution]
• [Lady Jane (1986)] (dramatization of her execution)

1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William the Silent]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Balthasar Gérard]
• [The Assassination of William the Silent (William of Orange)]

1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Langport]
• [Wikipedia: English Civil War]
• [What caused the English Civil War? | Origins of the Civil War | 5 Minute History]

1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.

1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
• [Wikipedia: Vellore mutiny]
• [Wikipedia: East India Company]
• [The Vellore Mutiny of 1806]

1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.

1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1882 – War of the Pacific (Saltpeter War): Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
• [Battle of La Concepción]
• [War of the Pacific]

1883 – War of the Pacificc (Saltpeter War): Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
• [Battle of Huamachuco]
• [War of the Pacific]

1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1920 – Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• [Wikipedia: Bloody Sunday (1921)]

1924 – Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the Paris Olympics.

1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• [Wikipedia: Scopes Trial]
• [Wikipedia: Butler Act]
• [The Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925) | America Went "Ape" Over This Case]
• [Scopes Monkey – Rare Footage of the "Trial of the Century" | Flashback | History]
• [The Scopes Monkey Trial Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review]
• [Innes Lecture 2020 - The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial: why did so many people hate evolution?]

1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.

1938 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Howard Hughes]
• [Howard Hughes' Flight - 1938| Movietone Moment | 10 July 2020]
• [Biography Documentary HD - Howard Hughes]

1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
• [Wikipedia: Vichy France]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [046 - The Dictator of France - The Rise of Philippe Pétain - WW2 - 046 - July 13 1940]
• [18. The Dark Years: Vichy France]
• [Vichy France and the Nature of Fascism (Reading)]

1940 – World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion]
• [Wikipedia: Kanalkampf]
• [Battle of Britain]

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1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
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1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
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1943 – World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
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1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
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1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
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1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
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1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
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1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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1976 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
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1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
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1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
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1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
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1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
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1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
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1991 – A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
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1992 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
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1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
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1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
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1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
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1999 – In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
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2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
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2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
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2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
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2015 - The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed..
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2017 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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2017 - NASA's Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at 9,000 kilometers overhead.
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2018 - The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding.
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2019 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
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2019 - Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa found with 210,000 year old skull from Apidima Cave, southern Greece published in "Nature".
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