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OUTLOOK
Cool and dry high pressure will remain over the region through the weekend. A cold front will arrive Sunday night, bringing a modest chance of rain to the region, and possibly light snowfall in the North Carolina mountains Monday. Cold high pressure returns on Tuesday, bringing dry weather through the middle of next week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
• Town of Franklin Welcomes Holiday Season with Winter Wonderland [Macon Media]
• Brasstown Ringers to Perform Christmas Concert Series [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Monday Night
Franklin area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Increasing clouds, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and 4am. Cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 8 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph in the morning becoming calm in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Increasing clouds, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the early evening shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 40.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20.
Otto area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 7 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Increasing clouds, with lows around freezing. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 8 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20.
Nantahala area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds becoming east around 5 mph by noon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 34. Light east wind.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the early evening shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 40.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Other than patchy fog through midmorning, hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
100 AM EST Sat Nov 20 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 extreme upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.5 out of 12) today with Ragweed being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 20th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 76°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1994
Lowest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 1914
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.33 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 1.7 inches in Franklin in 1882
Record Weather Events for November (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Nov 4, 2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on Nov 25, 1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on Nov 29, 1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on Nov 28, 1922
Record Weather Events for November 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Maysville, Onslow County in 2009
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 5.08 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1969
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Record Weather Events for November in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County on 11-09-1900
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 8.15 inches in Idlewild, Ashe County on 11-06-1977
Greatest Snowfall 18.00 in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-04-1930
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ with the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is back in 2021! The 1¼ hour round-trip passenger excursion comes to life as the train departs the Bryson City depot for a journey through the quiet wilderness for a special visit at the North Pole. Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, guests on board will enjoy warm cocoa and a treat while listening and reading along with the magical story. Children’s faces show the magic of the season when the train arrives at the North Pole to find Santa Claus waiting. Santa will board THE POLAR EXPRESS™, greeting each child and presenting them with a special gift as in the story, their own silver sleigh bell. Christmas carols will be sung as they return back to the Bryson City Depot. For ticksts, see [GSMR.com]
COLD Turkey 5K & Little Turkeys Fun Run (ALL AGES) 2021
This year's Cold Turkey will be a benefit for Macon County Special Olympics
Gobble! Gobble! Join others for Franklin, NC's annual Cold Turkey 5K Run/Walk & Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk on THANKSGIVING DAY (2021)
Race day registration begins at 8:00AM
Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk (10-U) starts at 9AM
Cold Turkey 5K starts at 9:30AM
Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries
Adapted from an old Scandinavian custom of lighting the way for the Christ child, more than 2,500 candles in small white bags line the streets and every storefront is aglow with Christmas lights and decorations. Shopkeepers and restaurants are open late. See Santa and Mrs. Claus as they ride through town in their pickup truck. Write a letter to Santa and drop it off at his special mailbox. Live music on Front Street. For more information, see [Visit Dillsboro]
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National and World News Roundup
CBS News Special Report: Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges
Kyle Rittenhouse defense attorney, Mark Richards, speaks out following not guilty verdict
Special Section on Major Legislation: HR 5376, the Build Back Better Act
"The Build Back Better Bill is passed."
• Bill Summary and Text [Congress.Gov]
• Debate [Youtube Video]
• Vote and Roll Call [Clerk of the US House]
• Estimated Revenue Effects of Increased Funding for the Internal Revenue Service [Congressional Budget Office]
• Summary of Cost Estimate [Congressional Budget Office]
President Biden Pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 19th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode November 19, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 18, 2021]
• Inside the Austrian lockdown [UnHerd]
COVID-19 Q&A with A&V Livestream 11/18/21
• title [SOURCE]
Dr John Campbell: Boosters for all adults, conflicting advice
• Multistate Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings, United States [CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases]
• Reduced Incidence of Long-COVID Symptoms Related to Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines Both Before COVID-19 Diagnosis and Up to 12 Weeks After [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2 [Proceedings of the Royal Society Biologocal Sciences]
• Transmission potential of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a federal prison, July-August 2021 [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Covid misinformation spreads because so many Americans are awful at math [Washington Post]
• A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Amazon (Link to Kindle Edition)]
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On This Day
November 20th is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 41 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)
284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
1441 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan.
1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1815 – The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by Allied troops for several more years.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
• [VIDEO: The Terrifying Story of the Real Moby Dick]
• [The Real Moby Dick Was So Much Worse]
• [Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (FULL Audiobook)]
• [Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (Project Gutenberg)]
1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 – American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She informed about her impending tour with a troupe of more then 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
• [Video Explainer from HistoryScope]
• [Wikipedia: Nuremberg trials]
• [PDF: Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials]
• [Holocaust Encyclopedia]
• [(Viewer Discretion Advised) VIDEO: Nazi Concentration And Prison Camps]
• [The National World War II Museum]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 1)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV part 2)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 3)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 4)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 5)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 6)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 7)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 8)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 9)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 10)]
• [Audio of Nuremberg Trials (over 650 videos)]
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1968 – A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• [VIDEO: AT&T Breakup-the day after in 1984]
• [VIDEO: AT&T - The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again]
• [Wikipedia: United States v. AT&T]
1974 – The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1979 – Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
• [35 Years of Microsoft Windows: Remembering Windows 1.0]
• [Microsoft Wiki: Windows 1.0]
• [Windows 1.0 Demo (1985 System, 1.01)]
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1993 – Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes near Ohrid killing all 116 people on board.
1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
1996 – A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 – The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• [International Space Station - Episode 1 -Zarya]
• [The Beginning - Russian Proton Rocket Launches Zarya ISS Core 1998-11-20]
• [Zarya - the first module of the International Space Station]
2003 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2015 – Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.
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If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
• Bill Summary and Text [Congress.Gov]
• Debate [Youtube Video]
• Vote and Roll Call [Clerk of the US House]
• Estimated Revenue Effects of Increased Funding for the Internal Revenue Service [Congressional Budget Office]
• Summary of Cost Estimate [Congressional Budget Office]
President Biden Pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 19th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode November 19, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 18, 2021]
• Inside the Austrian lockdown [UnHerd]
COVID-19 Q&A with A&V Livestream 11/18/21
• title [SOURCE]
Dr John Campbell: Boosters for all adults, conflicting advice
• Multistate Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings, United States [CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases]
• Reduced Incidence of Long-COVID Symptoms Related to Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines Both Before COVID-19 Diagnosis and Up to 12 Weeks After [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2 [Proceedings of the Royal Society Biologocal Sciences]
• Transmission potential of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a federal prison, July-August 2021 [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Covid misinformation spreads because so many Americans are awful at math [Washington Post]
• A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Amazon (Link to Kindle Edition)]
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On This Day
November 20th is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 41 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)
284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
1441 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan.
1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1815 – The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by Allied troops for several more years.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
• [VIDEO: The Terrifying Story of the Real Moby Dick]
• [The Real Moby Dick Was So Much Worse]
• [Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (FULL Audiobook)]
• [Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (Project Gutenberg)]
1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 – American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She informed about her impending tour with a troupe of more then 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
• [Video Explainer from HistoryScope]
• [Wikipedia: Nuremberg trials]
• [PDF: Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials]
• [Holocaust Encyclopedia]
• [(Viewer Discretion Advised) VIDEO: Nazi Concentration And Prison Camps]
• [The National World War II Museum]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 1)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV part 2)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 3)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 4)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 5)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 6)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 7)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 8)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 9)]
• [Nuremberg Trial (Court TV, part 10)]
• [Audio of Nuremberg Trials (over 650 videos)]
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1968 – A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• [VIDEO: AT&T Breakup-the day after in 1984]
• [VIDEO: AT&T - The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again]
• [Wikipedia: United States v. AT&T]
1974 – The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1979 – Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
• [35 Years of Microsoft Windows: Remembering Windows 1.0]
• [Microsoft Wiki: Windows 1.0]
• [Windows 1.0 Demo (1985 System, 1.01)]
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1993 – Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes near Ohrid killing all 116 people on board.
1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
1996 – A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 – The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• [International Space Station - Episode 1 -Zarya]
• [The Beginning - Russian Proton Rocket Launches Zarya ISS Core 1998-11-20]
• [Zarya - the first module of the International Space Station]
2003 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2015 – Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, November 20, 2021
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. Back to Top
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