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GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure in the northeast will bring mild daytime temperatures over the weekend. Expect rain chances to increase this weekend and into early next week as a low pressure system approaches from the Gulf states. Drier weather and mild temperatures near normal return Tuesday into mid week.
FROG FAIR SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, NOV 5th FROM 10AM TO 4PM
Friends of the Greenway announce their Fall arts and crafts fundraising event. FROG FAIR will be held Nov 5, 2022 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light and variable winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midnight.
Sunday
A slight chance of rain before 8am, then showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
Showers likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Showers likely. Cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
Showers likely, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
Showers likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
Showers likely, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Drought Update from the NC Climate Office
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Record Weather Events for October 29th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 81°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2016
Lowest Temperature 16°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 5.98 inches in Highlands in 2020
Greatest Snowfall 0.5 inches in Highlands in 1910
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Franklin on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1964
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands on 10-20-1913
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Hilda)
Record Weather Events for October 29th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 98°F in Cullowhee, Jackson County in 1981
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey Count in 2008
Greatest Rainfall 6.72 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2017
Greatest Snowfall 8.0 inches in Waynesville, Haywood County in 1908
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches on Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 10-25-1990
Climate Normals Accumulated Rainfall for the Year to October 1st
Franklin 42.38 inches
Coweeta Experimental Station 53.91 inches
Highlands 65.66 inches
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Oct 29 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Eastern Caribbean:
A broad area of low pressure over the eastern Caribbean Sea continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from the Windward Islands west-northwestward for several hundred miles. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development over the next few days, and a tropical depression is likely to form this weekend or early next week while the disturbance moves slowly westward or west-northwestward over the central Caribbean Sea. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over portions of the Lesser Antilles, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico through this weekend.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
2. Western Atlantic:
Satellite data indicate that a well-defined low pressure area located about 160 miles west of Bermuda is currently producing a limited amount of shower and thunderstorm activity. Environmental conditions are forecast to remain only marginally conducive, and any additional development should be slow to occur over the next day or so. By late Saturday, upper-level winds are forecast to become even less favorable, and the low is expected to begin interacting with an approaching frontal system. Therefore, development after that time is not anticipated.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Smoke fields from fires across the southeast will be crossing the county today.
Air quality is in the opper 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
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range 2.4 out of 12) today with Ragweed and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.4 out of 12).
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
FROG FAIR SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, NOV 5th from 10AM TO 4PM
Friends of the Greenway announce their Fall arts and crafts fundraising event. FROG FAIR will be held Nov 5, 2022 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
RECEPTION FOR RETIRING POLICE CHIEF BILL HARRELL
A reception for the retiring Franklin Police Chief will be held at the Franklin Town Hall (lower level) on Monday, November 7th from 2pm to 5pm.
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Local and State News
• Town of Franklin Asks Citizens to Voluntarily Restrict Water Usage [Macon Media]
• Macon County schools and communities donate over 1,500 ornaments for the 2022 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree [Macon Media]
• Friday Football Frenzy: All your scores & highlights, 10-28-22 [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Franklin 28 to TC Roberson 7 at home. 6-4 for the season (3-2 for 4th place in conference) • The Wrap @NCCapitol: Elections home stretch, Dems drop $$ into eastern NC race and the loss of a Senate story teller [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Moody’s bond revoked for failure to appear [Smoky Mountain News]
• Meet the candidates on your WNC ballot [BPR]
Macon County Commissioner candidate forum
State Budget Details
• NC Budget Table of Contents [Google Drive (PDF)]
• NC House Bill 103: 2022 Appropriations Act [Google Drive (PDF)]
• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022 [Google Drive (PDF)]
• House Bill 103 Information and Voting History [NC General Assembly Website]
• Raises for state employees, preparations for recession, in proposed state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(Longer videos are in the Russo-Ukraine Videos section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 28 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 28th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 248 [Al Jazeera]
• Russia threatens a retaliatory strike against US commercial satellites [ARS TECHNICA]
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 12. Habsburg Curiosity | Yale Courses
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (UTVD Operational Update: ZSU Counter Offensive in Kharkiv, 10-12 Sep 22.)
1/ UTW – Operational Update: ZSU Counter Offensive in the Donbas, 04-10 Sep. The ZSU is engaged in what may likely become the most stunningly successful counteroffensive since the IDFs OPERATION GAZELLE during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. #ukrainecounteroffensive #UkraineWillWin pic.twitter.com/nrC8cg02ia
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) September 10, 2022
--> • Russian state journalist killed by ‘stray bullet’ at Crimea base [Al Jazeera]
• Fact check: Russia's false case for a dirty bomb in Ukraine [DW News]
• ‘A lot at stake politically’ for Putin in battle for Kherson [France 24]
• LIVEBLOG: 248th day of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• Ukraine war: Kyiv set for longer power cuts after air strikes [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• ‘No one can sit out the coming storm’: Putin’s milestone Valdai speech [Russia Today]
• Putin: The world is changing, and most difficult decade since WWII is coming [Pravda ]
• Most important decade since end of World War II: Putin’s speech at Valdai club [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Paul Pelosi attack: Violent extremism warning ahead of US election [BBC News]
Intruder asks 'Where is Nancy?' before beating Pelosi's husband with hammer, police say | PBS Newshour
• Paul Pelosi, Husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attacked in San Francisco Home [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (video and audio)]
Man charged with attempted murder in attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband | CBS New York
• Pelosi attacker was part of nude activist community, immersed in conspiracy [Politico]
• Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband shows violent escalation of rhetoric painting her as enemy No. 1 [San Fransisco Chronicle]
• Federal judge OK's ballot box watchers [ABC15 Arizona]
• Iran Crisis Update, October 28 [Understanding War] [PDF for October 28th]
• Memorials for 2 Young Women Killed in Iran Galvanize Protests [New York Times]
• Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones [The Intercept]
• Iran’s Security Forces Open Fire On Mourners In Cemetery [Iran International]
• Dow Jumps More Than 800 Points as Apple Gains 7.6% [Wall Street Journal]
• Dow closes 800 points higher on Friday, registers fourth straight week of gains [CNBC]
• US imposes sanctions on organization that issued bounty on Salman Rushdie [CNN]
• More kids to ride in ‘clean’ school buses, mostly electric [AP News]
• Nets condemn Kyrie Irving's promotion of antisemitic film [ESPN]
• DNA evidence frees California man imprisoned for decades [AP News]
• Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to urge UN leaders to starve terrorists of money to prevent attacks [Sky News]
• Hawaii’s Big Island gets warning as huge volcano rumbles [AP News]
• GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover [CNBC]
• 1/6 panel contests need for high court intervention in fake elector subpoena [Courthouse News Service]
America’s billionaire-owned politics | The Bottom Line
(Part 1) Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes - CTC meeting | United Nations
Biden and Harris speak at Pennsylvania Democratic Party event | PBS Newshour
Trump Rally in Texas | Team IvankaTrump
Washington Today (10-28-22): Home intruder seeking Speaker Pelosi brutally attacks her husband | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Oct. 28, 2022 | What former police chief's Emergencies Act testimony means
Nightly News Full Broadcast (October 28th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, October 28, 2022
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:43pm CEST, 28 October 2022, there have been 626,337,158 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,566,610 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 26 October 2022, a total of 12,830,378,906 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:43pm CEST, 28 October 2022, there have been 95,946,824 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,059,255 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 21 October 2022, a total of 625,145,993 vaccine doses have been administered.
• China Covid: Millions back in lockdown as Beijing doubles down on zero-Covid [BBC News]
• The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill [Wired]
• They made doors, gum and jerry cans. Ontario’s ‘essential’ workers in manufacturing accounted for more workplace COVID deaths than any other sector — even health care [Toronto Star]
• Fact check: No evidence of a link between COVID-19 vaccines, cancer spike in people under 50 [Yahoo! News]
• A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu, R.S.V. and Covid May Collide This Winter, Experts Say [New York Times]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• So far, this flu season is more severe than it has been in 13 years[Washington Post]
• Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones [The Intercept]
• Police IP Crime Units Win Awards For Targeting Pirate IPTV Providers [Torrent Freak]
• New research shows how octopuses may have evolved [PHYS.ORG]
• Saudis ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk takeover [Al Jazeera]
• EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 [Reuters]
• Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash [New York Times]
• Comcast wants Internet users to pay more because customer growth has stalled [ARS TECHNICA]
• How to find the best deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022 [The Verge]
• Magma on Mars likely [ETH Zürich]
• NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth [NASA]
• Fall of Civilizations #16. Bagan - City of Temples [SOURCE]
• 25 tips to help you prepare for the 2024 total solar eclipse [Astronomy Magazine]
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
(Part 1) Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes - CTC meeting | United Nations
Venture Cowpitalism - DTNS 4385 | Daily Tech News Show
Ejecting A Floppy Disk in Zero-G - Why NASA Flew A Mac on the Space Shuttle | Scott Manley
EVs, Floods and Fires | Transport Evolved
What James Webb Saw Near the Edge of the Universe - James Webb Part 1 | Astrum
The Day Technology Went Away | Event Horizon
Civil War of the First Crusade - Medieval History | Kings and Generals
Why Germany Lost the Battle of the Bulge | Real Time History
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PUTIN AND ZELENSKY? What happened on Day 247 of the Russian invasion
Ukraine calls on Iran to stop sending arms to Russia | DW News
Abandoned Russian base holds secrets of retreat in Ukraine | Reuters
Ukraine faces widespread outages after wave of Russian attacks | Al Jazeera
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On This Day
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 63 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
1268 – Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1467 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
1591 – Pope Innocent IX is elected.
1611 – Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1621 – The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).
1658 – Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
1665 – Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1914 – Ottoman entry into World War I.
1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
1921 – United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1944 – The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1948 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.
1960 – An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964 – Biggest jewel heist; involving the Star of India (gem) in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang.
1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 – In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.
1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot
tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998 – The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
1999 – A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
2002 – A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.
2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the
2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
2008 – A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
2014 – A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
2015 – China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
2018 – A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board.
2020 – Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.
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Published at 4:15am on Saturday, October 29, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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