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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Drier air and low chances for any storms will likely persist through mid-week. A southerly flow will develop later in the week and bring about a gradual increase in showers and thunderstorms, especially over the mountains through the weekend. Temperatures and humidity will increase again during the latter half of the week as well with high temperatures a few degrees above normal.
Winter Outlook 2023-24: El Niño's potential impacts (07-21-2023) | Matt Makens, Weatherman
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the south in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northeast 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs ion the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
A Whopper of a Storm Speeds Towards Earth | Space Weather News 20 July 2023
Back to Top • The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t [ARS TECHNICA]
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
• The official hurricane season for the Atlantic basin is from June 1 to November 30, but tropical cyclone activity sometimes occurs before and after these dates, respectively. The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is September 10, with most activity occurring between mid-August and mid-October.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Jul 25 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Near the Windward Islands (AL95):
A tropical wave located just east of the Windward Islands is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms while moving quickly westward. Development, if any, of this system should be slow to occur during the next day or two before it moves into a region of unfavorable upper-level winds. Even though development is unlikely, locally heavy rains and strong gusty winds are expected across portions of the Lesser Antilles during the next day or so.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent.
2. Southwestern Atlantic:
A weak trough of low pressure is located a few hundred miles south-southwest of Bermuda. Some gradual development of this system is possible while it moves west-northwestward towards the southeastern U.S. coast later this week and into the weekend.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
TROPICAL TIDBITS
Tropical Tidbits is a website run by Macon Media's favorite no-nonsense tropical forecaster, Levi Cowan. He does not post material just to get clicks or to sensationalize the storms he covers to "make them more exciting." He is reliable and sober, unlike The Weather Channel crowd of Drama Queen Meteorologists.
Levi typically posts videos late in the afternoon or early before midnight on Youtube. [Youtube Channel]
[Thursday] Bret on Final Approach to Lesser Antilles; TD4 Forms (06-22-2023)
A Few Areas To Keep an Eye on Over the Coming Days July 24, 2023 | hurricanetrack
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Almanac
PM2.5 AQI is 55 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 81 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW)
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (4.2 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 94°F in Franklin in 1999
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Highlands in 1911 (also a state record low)
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.12 inches in Highlands in 1893
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for July 25th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Washington, Beaufort County in 1952
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Highlands, Macon County in 1911
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.92 inches in Wilmington, New Hanover County in 1951
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Gladys)
--> Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Jefferson, Ashe County on 06-17-1917
Greatest Rainfall 12.41 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 06-30-1962
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
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Macon Calendar
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Saturday, July 15th
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Local and State News
Runner gains 'wilderness street cred' after being attacked by bear in Asheville | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• A rush to judgement: The mere existence of trans people is not a crime [Smoky Mountain News]
• Adding to the candidate list, ex-North Carolina Sen. Ballard is running for lieutenant governor [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Operating public restrooms in Waynesville proves challenging after repeated vandalism [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Pat McCrory, now with No Labels, is pushing a third way in US politics. Could he be a spoiler? [https://www.bpr.org/2023-07-24/pat-mccrory-now-with-no-labels-is-pushing-a-third-way-in-us-politics-could-he-be-a-spoiler]
• Speedy’s facing demolition, but is hoping to relocate [Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
---Recent News Recap---
July 24th, 2023
Pfizer plant damage: Workers to be paid, possible nationwide impact | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending July 20 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Prosecutors lobbied NC lawmakers to kill criminal justice reform bills, emails show [Raleigh News and Observer]
• NC House unlikely to proceed with education overhaul, speaker says [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Swain teens push for youth center [Smoky Mountain News]
• Retiree turns inventor [Macon County News and Shopping Guide]
---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---
• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
‘We are homeless’: Rising rents drive boom in RV living in California | FRANCE 24 English
• Stock Market Shrugs Off Recession Signals as Rally Builds [Wall Street Journal]
• Russia is trying to strangle Ukraine’s grain industry. American shoppers could feel the pain. [Politico]
• Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions [AP News]
• 'Now the world can see': Hunter Biden goes to court as fight continues between GOP and White House [USA TODAY (via Yahoo News)]
• Arkansas man gets four-year term for beating Capitol officer with flagpole [The Guardian (UK)]
International News Headlines
Israel approves law limiting Supreme Court from overruling government | DW News
• North Korea fires two missiles after U.S. submarine arrives in South [Reuters]
• Mexico seeks another chance to hold US gunmakers liable for drug cartel violence [Courthouse News Service]
• US sanctions Mali’s defence minister, officials over Wagner ties [Al Jazeera]
• US risks falling behind China in rapid satellite launches, report warns [South China Morning Post]
• Rhodes wildfires are 'like a biblical catastrophe' [BBC News]
On The Media: News About Journalism, Media Literacy, and Ethics in Journalism Ethics 101: The EJN 5-Point Test For Hate Speech | Ethical Journalism Network
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• Santa Barbara News-Press declares bankruptcy, ceases publication after more than 150 years [Los Angeles Times (Yahoo News)]
• How a new two-minute quiz measures misinformation susceptibility [Nieman Lab]
• Nighttime Scanner (written and audio) [Columbia Journalism Review]
• The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 07/24/2023 [Media Bias/Fact Check]
• Arkansas man gets four-year term for beating Capitol officer with flagpole [The Guardian (UK)]
Washington Today (7/24/23): Israel votes to limit Supreme Court powers amid mass protests | C-SPAN
Global National: July 23, 2023 | Nova Scotians assess damage after historic floods
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 24
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 24, 2023)
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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:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:14pm CEST, 12 July 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 12:14pm CEST, 12 July 2023, there have been 767,972,961 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,950,655 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 9 July 2023, a total of 13,474,185,140 vaccine doses have been administered.
COVID Canada needs a national inquiry into COVID failures, experts say | CBC News
• US National Institutes of Health Updated Guidelines on Long Covid in Children [The John Snow Project]
• Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic [nature]
• 'Debbie Downer' vaccine doc fears post 'Barbieheimer' COVID bump, gets reminded 'it's not 2020' [Fox News]
TWiV 1028: Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and T cells | Microbe TV
• TWiV 1027: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1028: Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and T cells [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from July 21 to 28: Enjoy the starry summer sky [Astronomy Magazine]
Weirdest White Dwarf Ever Found. What's Going On? | Fraser Cain
• Elon Musk Rebrands Twitter With New X Logo [IGN]
• Two-Faced Star Exposed [CalTech]
• Read Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s message to staff about the ‘X’ rebrand [CNBC]
• NASA's mission to collide with asteroid sent 'swarm of boulders' into space [ABC News]
• "100% coral mortality" found in coral reef restoration site off Florida as ocean temperatures soar [CBS News]
• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
Hardcore History: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | Dan Carlin
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show July 25 2023: WallStreetBots | Level1 Techs
X-ing Out the Bird - DTNS 4567 | Daily Tech News Show
Moses Coulee Megafloods w/ Joel Gombiner | Nick Zentner
How Sharks Hold Their Breath To Dive Deeper | Ben G Thomas
Grabby Aliens The Worst Case Scenario With Robin Hanson | Event Horizon
To Infinity and Berlin | LINUX Unplugged 520
How Antitrust Rulings Impact Tech | TWiT TV
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 24 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 24th ]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 517 [Al Jazeera]
**website offline. Here is the most recent post**
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 515: Russian strikes against Ukrainian South continue [Euromaiden Press]
Military expert explains Ukraine’s drone assaults on Russian-held territory | CNN
• Russia-Ukraine updates: Moscow warns of retaliation after attacks [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine reports advances toward Sea of Azov and near Bakhmut [TVP World]
• Ukraine updates: Russian attack destroys Odesa grain depot [DW News]
• 🔴 Liveblog: Russia launches sixth air attack on Kyiv this month[DW News]
• Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports [BBC News]
How the fate of Putin's generals reveals cracks in Russia's army | DW News
Separated by war: Ukrainian grandparents caring for grandchildren | Al Jazeera
Belarusian strongman and Russian war criminal and their alternative reality | Sergei Erofeev | TVP World
Inside the 'Grey Zone': Ukrainians' Resolve Amid Conflict | Ukraine Frontline | Scripps News
The Devastating First Destruction of the Swedish CV90 IFV in Ukraine | Military TV
🔴 (NotSuitableForWhining) - Glide Bombs, Failed Assaults, Gator Tail | Combat Footage Show
Why Do We Call the War in Ukraine Unprovoked? - Debunking Russian Claims | Kings and Generals
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
The Russians Have Annihilated The Depots In Odessa | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Zelensky’s ‘cannon fodder’: The strange lives and pointless deaths of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Romania starts for fear as Russian UAVs strike Ukraine's Odessa ports [Pravda]
• US to send 32 Stryker armored vehicles to Kiev regime — AP [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
July 25th is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 159 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)
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
• [Wikipedia: Arch of Constantine]
• [History of Rome in 15 Buildings 09. The Arch of Constantine]
• [Milvian Bridge 312 - Rise of Christianity] (Kings and Generals)
• [Constantine and Maxentius fight it out at the Milvian Bridge] Clip from: "Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire"
677 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Thessalonica (676–678)]
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
• [Wikipedia: Edict of Pîtres]
• [Edict of Pistres | Stuff That I Find Interesting]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Charles the Bald]
1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Ourique]
• [The Battle of Ourique, 1139]
• [CSI: Portuguese History & the Battle of Ourique with Phil Sylvain]
• [Afonso I of Portugal]
• [Wikipedia: Reconquista]
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
• [Wikipedia: Reconquest of Constantinople]
• [Summer of 1261: A Byzantine Epic- Reconquest of Constantinople Lego film] (a dramatization of events using Legos)
1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
• [Battle of Algeciras (1278)]
1467 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
• [Battle of Molinella]
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• [Henry IV of France]
• [Henri IV - The King of France (1589-1610) - The Good King]
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
• [Wikipedia: Sea Venture]
• [The Ivins Tale of the Sea Venture]
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
• [Wikipedia: Dummer's War]
• [The Story of Maine "The Frontier Wars"] (Maine PBS)
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
• [Wikipedia: Expulsion of the Acadians]
• [Learn Liberty: The Expulsion of the Acadians]
• [Acadian Expulsion Ceremony | CBC]
1759 – French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Fort Niagara]
• [Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent]
• [Wikipedia: French and Indian War]
• [Battle Scenes from Fort Niagara 2021]
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Cuddalore]
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
• [Wikipedia Bio: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• [Wikipedia: Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)]
• [Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 (Julien Salemkour & Staatskapelle Berlin)]
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
• [Wikipedia: Brunswick Manifesto]
• [Wikipedia: French Revolution]
• [War of the First Coalition]
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
• [Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson]
• [Admiral Nelson and The Battle of Santa Cruz 1797]
• [The Great Commanders - 104 - Horatio Nelson | FULL LENGTH | MagellanTV]
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Abukir (1799)]
• [Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801)]
• [French campaign in Egypt and Syria]
1814 – War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
• [Battle of Lundy's Lane]
• [The Battle of Lundy's Lane (July 1814)]
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Joaquin Murrieta]
• [Robin Hood of Eldorado (1936 Film)]
1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
• [Wikipedia: Crittenden–Johnson Resolution]
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.
1869 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• [First Sino-Japanese War]
• [First Sino-Japanese War | 3 Minute History]
• [Feature History - First Sino-Japanese War]
1898 – Spanish–American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
• [Puerto Rico campaign]
• [How Did the US Get Puerto Rico?]
• [The Spanish-American War - Explained in 11 minutes]
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
• [Wikipedia: Engelbert Dollfuss]
• [Movietone Newsreel]
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
• [Norwegian resistance movement]
• [German occupation of Norway]
• [Battlefield - The Norwegian Campaign - Full Documentary]
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
• [Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy]
• [Grand Council of Fascism]
• [Benito Mussolini: The Man Who Destroyed Democracy]
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
• [Operation Spring]
• [First Canadian Army]
• [Operation Spring - The Battle for Verrières Ridge]
1946 – The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
• [Test Baker]
• [Crossroads Baker] (narrated by William Shatner)
• [Baker 1946 - Operation Crossroads - Atomic Bomb - [ 60 FPS - Color - 4K ]]
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
• [Wikipedia: SS Andrea Doria]
• [SS Andrea Doria Sinking - Stock Footage]
• [What happened to the Andrea Doria?]
1957 – The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• [RADIO AND TELEVISION REPORT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THE BERLIN CRISIS, JULY 25, 1961] (Text and Audio)
• [NATO and the Berlin Crisis of 1961: Facing the Soviets While Maintaining Unity] (PDF)
• [President John F. Kennedy Report to the Nation, Berlin Crisis, 25 July 1961] (video)
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
• [Wikipedia: Nixon Doctrine]
• [The Nixon Doctrine (1972) | ARCHIVES]
• [Ambassador Richard Grenell - Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Nixon Doctrine]
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
• [Wikipedia: Mars 5]
• [NASA Archive]
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• [Wikipedia: Cydonia (Mars)]
• [Face on Mars Explained | NASA's images]
• [Seeing Things That Aren’t There? It’s Called Pareidolia]
1978 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Louise Brown]
• [Louise Brown on growing up the first test tube baby]
• [1978: The First Test - Tube - Baby]
1979 – In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Svetlana Savitskaya]
• [Wikipedia: Salyut-7]
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
• [Operation Accountability]
• [Operation "Accountability" in Lebanon (1993)]
• [LINKTEXT]
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
• [Saint James Church massacre]
• [Charl van Wyk discusses the St. James Church Massacre with VCDL]
• [St. James massacre]
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
• [Israel–Jordan peace treaty]
• [President Clinton at Signing of the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty (1994)] (Clinton Library)
• [WEST BANK: PROTESTS AGAINST JORDANIAN PEACE ACCORD WITH ISRAEL]
• [Israel-Jordan, peace treaty enters 25th year Jerusalem Studio 370] (TV7 Israel News)
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
• [Wikipedia: Air France Flight 4590]
• [Seconds From Disaster Air Crash Investigation - Air France Flight 4590 Concorde Disaster Paris]
• [How the Crash of Flight 4590 Destroyed Concorde's Mystique]
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
• [Wikipedia: Afghan War documents leak]
• [WikiLeaks: Afghan War Diary ]
• [WikiLeaks - Julian Assange on the 'Afghan War Diary'] (Frontline Club)
2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
• [Wikipedia: 2018 As-Suwayda attacks]
• ['Scores killed in ISIL attacks' in southwest Syria | Al Jazeera English]
2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
• [Wikipedia: 2019 European heat waves]
• [LINKTEXT]
• [LINKTEXT]
2020 - At least 45 arrested after protesters throw explosives and rocks at police in Seattle
• [CNN Story and Video]
• [New York Times (story and social media links)]
• [Wikipedia (Mid-July and August Events)]
• [Sentinel Event Review of Police Response to 2020 Protests in Seattle (112-page PDF)]
2020 - Mass Shootings in Darfur
• [Wikipedia: 2020 Darfur attacks]
• [Inside the Forgotten War in Darfur, Where the Killing Never Stopped]
2020 - Florida Surpasses New York in COVID-19 Cases
• [CNN Article]
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Author: Bobby Coggins
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Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla' --->
Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla' --->
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