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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Light winds out of the south.
Saturday
Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the south in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
Partly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the south 3 to 8 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Wi8nds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected.
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Almanac
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 due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.4 out of 12) today with Alder, Juniper, and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (9.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 4th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 80°F in Franklin in 1976
Lowest Temperature 3°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.10 inches in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.0 inches in Highlands in 2016
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
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
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Local and State News
• Settlement Over N. Carolina Driver License Revocations OK'd [US News and World Report]
• New report shows NC teacher turnover is rising. Is it a serious problem yet? [Raleigh News and Observer]
• All NC students experienced learning loss during pandemic, data shows [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Who's running for Congress in North Carolina? See where 2022 candidates are competing [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Church considers move because of problems with homeless in the area, Asheville pastor says [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Otto Fire department establishes a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Special Section: Russia Invades Ukraine (Day 9)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
Day Nine
Ukraine Invasion Continues Day 9 (FNN Live)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 3 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF Download]
• After call with Putin, Macron convinced that ‘the worst is yet to come’ and Russia wants to take all of Ukraine [Washington Post]
Russo-Ukrainian War Meme of the Day
Fire Extinguished At Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant After Russian Attack
• BBC revives shortwave radio dispatches in Ukraine, and draws ire of Russia. [New York Times]
Ukraine - Russia War: More Civilians Go To The Front
• Canada prepared to welcome an 'unlimited number' of Ukrainians fleeing war, minister says [CBC News]
• Australian online anti-vaccine groups switch to Putin praise and Ukraine conspiracies [The Guardian]
• Moldova officially applies for EU membership [Al Jazeera]
• Top Russian general killed in Ukraine [Stars and Stripes]
• Volunteers cross Polish border into Ukraine to fight Russian forces [NBC News via Yahoo! News]
• Mariupol under siege: 'We are being completely cut off' [BBC News]
Alice Weidel Speech (English Subtitles)
• Ukraine invasion: Russian commanders 'will be hunted down for war crimes', justice secretary warns [Sky News]
• Moscow police detain children for laying flowers at Ukrainian embassy [The Guardian]
• RT America to cease production [AXIOS]
• Canada to send rocket launchers to Ukraine, streamline immigration for refugees [The Globe and Mail]
Additional News Sources
• Russia Launches invasion of Ukraine [BBC Liveblog]
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://ukranews.com/en/news
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx1m7zg0gzdt/ukraine
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/
https://www.ukrinform.net/
https://www.cgtn.com/europe
https://liveuamap.com/
NΞMICO NΞTWORK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNFS1bhD94Qc5vSARGOo6w
EarthCam Live: Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine | LIVE | Situation Room | INDB | Russian Military Advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8iFW7BRNA
Al Jazeera English | Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upyPouRrB8
DW News livestream | Headline news from around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZGs1MtP4
LIVE MULTI-CAM: EXPLOSIONS NEAR KIEV - UKRAINE/RUSSIA/DONETSK/LUHANSK + TWITTER FEEDS/NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpk4OFkXE
Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass | SPECIAL COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI
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National and World News Roundup
https://liveuamap.com/ • Purdue’s Sacklers Win States’ Acceptance for Up to $6 Billion Opioid Deal [Wall Street journal]
• title [SOURCE]
• Tacoma woman sentenced for burning 5 police cars during 2020 Seattle protests [KIRO-TV (Seattle, WA)]
• U.S. Secret Service takes two men into custody in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood [Reuters]
• What should you do in case of a nuclear explosion? U.S. government updates guidance [WJBK-TV (Detroit, MI)]
• Capitol riot defendant’s son does not ‘regret’ reporting father to FBI [Courthouse news Service]
• West African leaders cancel Burkina Faso visit after military president's inauguration [Reuters via Yahoo! News]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
16,000 foreign fighters flock to Ukraine to fight Russia
Global National: March 3, 2022 | Growing number of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Poland
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 3rd, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 3rd, 2022
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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]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:38pm CET, 3 March 2022, there have been 438,968,263 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,969,439 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 February 2022, a total of 10,585,766,316 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:38pm CET, 3 March 2022, there have been 78,352,602 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 945,523 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• New Study: COVID Can Infect Men's Genitals, Cause Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction [SFist]
• NFL suspends all COVID-19 protocols [WTVT-TV (Tampa Bay, FL)]
• Future infectious diseases: Recent history shows we can never again be complacent about pathogens [The Conversation]
• The Future of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination [The New england Journal of Medicine]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
[Outbreak.info]
• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Russian space chief says Russia will no longer sell rocket engines to the US [CNN]
• Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald's for $900 Million [WIRED]
• Spotify Shutters Russia Office, Removes All RT and Sputnik Content [Variety]
• Elon Musk warns Starlink system could be 'targeted' in Ukraine, advises users to camouflage the antenna and to place the device far away from people [Bueiness Insider]
• Volvo is testing wireless EV charging tech in Sweden [Tech Crunch]
• Turkish combat drone Bayraktar Akinci B successfully tested [Anadolu Agency]
• Facebook shuts down its attempt to remake original Facebook inside Facebook [The Verge]
• New Solar Panel Design Uses Wasted Energy to Make Water From Air [Microsoft News]
• Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon [AP News]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Level1 News March 4 2022: A Station Divided
You Had Me Until Pay Per Drink - DTNS 4224
Hypersonic Planes & Getting Too Close To Rockets - Supporter Questions - Episode 15
We're Building Computers Wrong
10 years of Raspberry Pi
The Metaverse: Future Or Farce? | Answers With Joe
Why Are there Holes in the James Webb Sunshield? (Explained by My Dad) - Smarter Every Day 270
Florida Starship Launch Tower Ready to be Assembled | Cape Update - Narrated
DIY sonar scanner (practical experiments)
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On This Day
March 4th is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 302 days remain until the end of the year. It is the first day of March. It is also the first day of meteorological spring in Northern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw II JagieÅ‚Å‚o (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 РExplorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Ni̱a from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 РFrance is divided into 83 d̩partements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 – John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1813 – Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1814 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1849 – President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1878 – Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1901 – McKinley inaugurated president for second time; Theodore Roosevelt is vice president.
1908 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1955 – An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) was legalized.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1990 – American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference Tournament game.
1994 – Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Colombia is launched on STS-62.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
2015 – At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
2020 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
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NΞMICO NΞTWORK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNFS1bhD94Qc5vSARGOo6w
EarthCam Live: Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine | LIVE | Situation Room | INDB | Russian Military Advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8iFW7BRNA
Al Jazeera English | Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upyPouRrB8
DW News livestream | Headline news from around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZGs1MtP4
LIVE MULTI-CAM: EXPLOSIONS NEAR KIEV - UKRAINE/RUSSIA/DONETSK/LUHANSK + TWITTER FEEDS/NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpk4OFkXE
Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass | SPECIAL COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI
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National and World News Roundup
https://liveuamap.com/ • Purdue’s Sacklers Win States’ Acceptance for Up to $6 Billion Opioid Deal [Wall Street journal]
• title [SOURCE]
• Tacoma woman sentenced for burning 5 police cars during 2020 Seattle protests [KIRO-TV (Seattle, WA)]
• U.S. Secret Service takes two men into custody in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood [Reuters]
• What should you do in case of a nuclear explosion? U.S. government updates guidance [WJBK-TV (Detroit, MI)]
• Capitol riot defendant’s son does not ‘regret’ reporting father to FBI [Courthouse news Service]
• West African leaders cancel Burkina Faso visit after military president's inauguration [Reuters via Yahoo! News]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
16,000 foreign fighters flock to Ukraine to fight Russia
Global National: March 3, 2022 | Growing number of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Poland
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 3rd, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 3rd, 2022
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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]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:38pm CET, 3 March 2022, there have been 438,968,263 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,969,439 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 February 2022, a total of 10,585,766,316 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:38pm CET, 3 March 2022, there have been 78,352,602 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 945,523 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• New Study: COVID Can Infect Men's Genitals, Cause Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction [SFist]
• NFL suspends all COVID-19 protocols [WTVT-TV (Tampa Bay, FL)]
• Future infectious diseases: Recent history shows we can never again be complacent about pathogens [The Conversation]
• The Future of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination [The New england Journal of Medicine]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
[Outbreak.info]
• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Russian space chief says Russia will no longer sell rocket engines to the US [CNN]
• Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald's for $900 Million [WIRED]
• Spotify Shutters Russia Office, Removes All RT and Sputnik Content [Variety]
• Elon Musk warns Starlink system could be 'targeted' in Ukraine, advises users to camouflage the antenna and to place the device far away from people [Bueiness Insider]
• Volvo is testing wireless EV charging tech in Sweden [Tech Crunch]
• Turkish combat drone Bayraktar Akinci B successfully tested [Anadolu Agency]
• Facebook shuts down its attempt to remake original Facebook inside Facebook [The Verge]
• New Solar Panel Design Uses Wasted Energy to Make Water From Air [Microsoft News]
• Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon [AP News]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Level1 News March 4 2022: A Station Divided
You Had Me Until Pay Per Drink - DTNS 4224
Hypersonic Planes & Getting Too Close To Rockets - Supporter Questions - Episode 15
We're Building Computers Wrong
10 years of Raspberry Pi
The Metaverse: Future Or Farce? | Answers With Joe
Why Are there Holes in the James Webb Sunshield? (Explained by My Dad) - Smarter Every Day 270
Florida Starship Launch Tower Ready to be Assembled | Cape Update - Narrated
DIY sonar scanner (practical experiments)
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On This Day
March 4th is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 302 days remain until the end of the year. It is the first day of March. It is also the first day of meteorological spring in Northern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw II JagieÅ‚Å‚o (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 РExplorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Ni̱a from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 РFrance is divided into 83 d̩partements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 – John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1813 – Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1814 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1849 – President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1878 – Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1901 – McKinley inaugurated president for second time; Theodore Roosevelt is vice president.
1908 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1955 – An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) was legalized.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1990 – American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference Tournament game.
1994 – Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Colombia is launched on STS-62.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
2015 – At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
2020 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, March 04, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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