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OUTLOOK
High pressure will control our weather through the rest of the week. A warming trend will continue until Friday, which will be an exceptionally warm day. A dry cold front will pass this weekend, with the next chance for rainfall not arriving until next week.
**Weather Alert**
...OUTDOOR BURN BAN IN EFFECT...
The state of North Carolina has issued a state-wide burn ban.
[Press Release]
Town of Franklin Declares a Fire Danger Emergency
Town of Franklin Declares a Fire Danger Emergency
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
• Brasstown Ringers to Perform Christmas Concert Series [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph early shifting to come out of the southwest by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. WInds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto area
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the southwest.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
...OUTDOOR BURN BAN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
The state of North Carolina has issued a state wide burn ban due to the very dry conditions and exceptionally dry fuels. This burn ban is expected to remain in place until significant rain occurs.
Outdoor burning is prohibited. Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities for further information. [Press Release]
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
700 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
This is the last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2022. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the 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 is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.9 out of 12) today with Juniper being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 73°F in Franklinn in 1962
lowest Temperature 6°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.00 inches in Franklin in 1878
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.0 inches in Highlands in 1918
Record weather events for December in Macon County
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on Dec 31, 1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on Dec 30, 1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.00 inches in Highlands on Dec 14, 1901
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on Dec 21, 1876
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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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 tickets, see [GSMR.com]
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
• Ex-Trump aide Meadows cooperating with House Jan. 6 panel [AP News]
• CNN suspends Chris Cuomo indefinitely [CNN]
• CNN host Chris Cuomo used his media sources to find out info on brother Andrew’s accusers, records show [CNBC]
• Sheriff: Oxford High School shooting suspect used gun dad bought on Black Friday [Detroit Free Press]
President Biden Delivers Remarks and Signs Into Law Bipartisan Veterans Bills
• Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a ‘risk of bankruptcy’ [CNBC]
• NATO chief says allies must prepare for the worst in Ukraine [AP News]
• The Taliban executed scores of Afghan security forces members after surrender, HRW report alleges [CNN]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 30th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode November 30th, 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]
11/30/21: Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
• Enhancing Readiness for Omicron (B.1.1.529): Technical Brief and Priority Actions for Member States [World Health Organization]
• CDC Expands COVID-19 Booster Recommendations [CDC Newsroom]
• The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing [The Lancet]
• Unvaccinated Guardsmen won’t be able to drill or draw federal pay: SECDEF memo [Army Times]
• Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world [CBS News]
• Federal judge blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers [CNET]
• Vermont reports record Covid-19 hospitalizations, strained ICU capacity [Vermont Digger]
• 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)]
• The real risk of heart inflammation to kids is from COVID-19—not the vaccine [National Geographic]
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On This Day
December 1st is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 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)
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1900 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
1939 – World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1997 – Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2018 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, December 02, 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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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
• Brasstown Ringers to Perform Christmas Concert Series [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph early shifting to come out of the southwest by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. WInds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto area
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the southwest.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
...OUTDOOR BURN BAN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
The state of North Carolina has issued a state wide burn ban due to the very dry conditions and exceptionally dry fuels. This burn ban is expected to remain in place until significant rain occurs.
Outdoor burning is prohibited. Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities for further information. [Press Release]
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
700 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
This is the last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2022. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the 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 is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.9 out of 12) today with Juniper being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 73°F in Franklinn in 1962
lowest Temperature 6°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.00 inches in Franklin in 1878
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.0 inches in Highlands in 1918
Record weather events for December in Macon County
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on Dec 31, 1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on Dec 30, 1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.00 inches in Highlands on Dec 14, 1901
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on Dec 21, 1876
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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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 tickets, see [GSMR.com]
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
• Ex-Trump aide Meadows cooperating with House Jan. 6 panel [AP News]
• CNN suspends Chris Cuomo indefinitely [CNN]
• CNN host Chris Cuomo used his media sources to find out info on brother Andrew’s accusers, records show [CNBC]
• Sheriff: Oxford High School shooting suspect used gun dad bought on Black Friday [Detroit Free Press]
President Biden Delivers Remarks and Signs Into Law Bipartisan Veterans Bills
• Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a ‘risk of bankruptcy’ [CNBC]
• NATO chief says allies must prepare for the worst in Ukraine [AP News]
• The Taliban executed scores of Afghan security forces members after surrender, HRW report alleges [CNN]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 30th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode November 30th, 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]
11/30/21: Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
• Enhancing Readiness for Omicron (B.1.1.529): Technical Brief and Priority Actions for Member States [World Health Organization]
• CDC Expands COVID-19 Booster Recommendations [CDC Newsroom]
• The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing [The Lancet]
• Unvaccinated Guardsmen won’t be able to drill or draw federal pay: SECDEF memo [Army Times]
• Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world [CBS News]
• Federal judge blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers [CNET]
• Vermont reports record Covid-19 hospitalizations, strained ICU capacity [Vermont Digger]
• 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)]
• The real risk of heart inflammation to kids is from COVID-19—not the vaccine [National Geographic]
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On This Day
December 1st is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 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)
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1900 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
1939 – World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1997 – Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2018 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, December 02, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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