Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A strong cold front will settle southeast of our area this morning, with patches of light rain developing behind the front east of the mountains through midday. Expect cool and breezy conditions behind the front through Wednesday, with widespread freezing temperatures Wednesday morning, and again Thursday morning. Temperatures warm again toward the end of the week and through the weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows Winds out of the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 20 percent chance of rain between 9am and 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 6 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the north 15 to 25 mph in the morning decreasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph before noon.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows Winds out of the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows around 25. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
A Freeze Warning will be in effect from Midnight Tonight Until 10am Wednesday Morning.
Higher elevations in the mountains will see single digit wind chill values early Wednesday morning.
Freeze Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
350 AM EDT Tue Oct 31 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures mainly from 20 to 25 degrees across the mountains, and from 27 to 32 degrees across the foothills and Piedmont.
* WHERE...Northeast Georgia, most of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 10 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... Temperatures are expected to drop well below freezing again Wednesday night.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
• North Carolina has new maps for the 2024 elections. What they change and who may run [Raleigh News and Observer]
What NC lawmakers left on the table: Casinos, happy hour, medical marijuana | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Cherokee County fire spreads across 75 acres [BPR]
• As 2 wildfires burn in WNC, dry and windy conditions fan worries others might break out [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Appointments, redistricting and judiciary moves are culmination of NC Republicans' march to power [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Tech industry job outlook remains strong in NC despite some high-profile layoffs, experts say [WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)]
• Team Waynesville supporter appears to violate federal law [Smoky Mountain News]
---NATIONAL---
How companies might react to Biden's AI executive order | KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA)
New details about Maine gunman emerge | NBC News
• U.S. Army Reserve, family raised alarm about Maine shooter weeks before attack [Reuters]
• (video) Why Aldi Is the Fastest Growing Grocer in the U.S. [Wall Street Journal]
• US to build new nuclear gravity bomb [Defense News]
• Judge temporarily bars federal government from cutting razor wire along the Texas border [ABC News]
• Las Vegas man charged with felony over antisemitic threats to Nevada senator [The Nevada Independent]
• What the pending UAW-Big 3 deals mean for workers, Biden and the economy [Politico]
International News Headlines
Scholz seeks Nigeria energy and migration partnerships | DW News
PLA general: ‘no mercy’ for Taiwan independence moves | South China Morning Post
• China and the US appear to restart military talks despite disputes over Taiwan and South China Sea [AP News]
• Two hours of terror and now years of devastation for Acapulco’s poor in Hurricane Otis aftermath [AP News]
• Exclusive: US military begins Japan seafood purchases to counter China ban [Reuters]
• China’s censors warn against ‘effusive comments’ while mourning Li Keqiang [Al Jazeera]
• S. Korea, U.S., Japan hold 1st trilateral working-level talks on humanitarian aid [Yonhap News Agency]
• UN says record 6.9 million people internally displaced in the DR Congo [Africa News]
Global National: Oct. 30, 2023 | Israel's assault pushes deeper into Gaza
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 30, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 30 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 30, 2023)
---COVID--- Boris Johnson's old Private Secretary cornered over lockdown-breaking parties at Covid Inquiry | PoliticsJOE
Boris Johnson's shocking 'mask-off' statements | openDemocracy
UK Covid-19 inquiry: Britain's public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic continues | Guadrian News
• New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe [The Globe and Mail ]
• Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now [CBS News]
• Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months [The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)]
• Effectiveness of Nirmatrelvir–Ritonavir Against the Development of Post–COVID-19 Conditions Among U.S. Veterans [Annals of Internal Medicine]
• TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology • The Sky This Week from October 27 to November 3: See the dark side of space [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 27 – November 5 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Apple Event - October 30 | Apple
Everything Apple Announced at Tonight's 'Scary Fast' Event! | MacRumors
• Apple introduces new M3 chip lineup, starting with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max [ARS TECHNICA]
• A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health advisers will review it next week [AP News]
• The politics of Biden’s vast new AI order [Politico]
• Excess fluoride linked to cognitive impairment in children [Tulane Today]
• Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago [TechSpot]
• Why did Twitter (X)’s valuation tank 56% in one year? [TechCrunch]
---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show October 31 2023: Air Force One Billion Dollars | Level1 Techs
AI Defense is Ramping Up - DTNS 4635 | Daily Tech News Show
Cordkillers 478 - Intermi-should (w/ Allison Sheridan) | Cordkiller
The Berserker Hypothesis and the Dark Forest | John Michael Godier
What Would Happen If The Earth Had Rings? | Joe Scott
You Don't Understand The Fermi Paradox | Fraser Cain
Secrets of the Universe: Neil Turok Public Lecture | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Infectious Disease Puscast #40 | Microbe TV
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War, October 30, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
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“Gazan Infiltrator” Shot, Netanyahu Defends Ground Op, Rejects Ceasefire, Yellow Star Protests at UN | CRUX
Shani Louk ‘beheaded’ by Hamas after she was kidnapped at music festival and paraded by terrorists | New York Post News
• Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and frees Hamas captive; Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire [AP News]
• Israel-Hamas war: Conservative MP Paul Bristow sacked from government post after calling for Gaza ceasefire [Sky News]
• Israel-Hamas war liveblog: Israeli attacks near Gaza City hospital spur ‘panic’ [Al Jazeera]
• Israel-Hamas war liveblog: Israel envoy wears yellow star at UN[DW News]
• IDF operates in Gaza, frees captive soldier - day 25 [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel’s bombardment of Gaza ongoing as military incursion deepens [Al Arabiya News]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 615) [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 30, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• FACT CHECK: How a baseless claim about Putin’s health spread from an unreliable Telegram account to TV news [AP News]
• Ukraine updates: Russia says 36 drones downed over Black Sea [DW News]
• Belarus's Lukashenko says Ukraine-Russia conflict at stalemate, urges talks [France 24]
• Moldova adds more Russian news agencies to its list of blocked sites [TVP World]
• Dispatches from Ukraine’s front lines: A predawn assault [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine’s allies plan US charm offensive [Politico]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ 🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
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Ukraine Conflict (20231030): Full Frontline Update | ATP Geopolitics
Day 614: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
Brutal footage with edge-of-the-seat moments | Military Mind | TVP World
Kyiv says it's prepared for expected Russian attacks on cities this winter | DW News
President Zelensky anti-Israel? That's what these fabricated magazine covers want you to believe | France 24
Horrifying Moments! How Ukrainian Missile Destroys 5 Russian Fighter Aircraft | US Defense News
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On This Day
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 62 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)
637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of RÃo Salado.
1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
1817 – Simón BolÃvar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1975 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague RuzynÄ› Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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What NC lawmakers left on the table: Casinos, happy hour, medical marijuana | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Cherokee County fire spreads across 75 acres [BPR]
• As 2 wildfires burn in WNC, dry and windy conditions fan worries others might break out [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Appointments, redistricting and judiciary moves are culmination of NC Republicans' march to power [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Tech industry job outlook remains strong in NC despite some high-profile layoffs, experts say [WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)]
• Team Waynesville supporter appears to violate federal law [Smoky Mountain News]
---NATIONAL---
How companies might react to Biden's AI executive order | KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA)
New details about Maine gunman emerge | NBC News
• U.S. Army Reserve, family raised alarm about Maine shooter weeks before attack [Reuters]
• (video) Why Aldi Is the Fastest Growing Grocer in the U.S. [Wall Street Journal]
• US to build new nuclear gravity bomb [Defense News]
• Judge temporarily bars federal government from cutting razor wire along the Texas border [ABC News]
• Las Vegas man charged with felony over antisemitic threats to Nevada senator [The Nevada Independent]
• What the pending UAW-Big 3 deals mean for workers, Biden and the economy [Politico]
International News Headlines
Scholz seeks Nigeria energy and migration partnerships | DW News
PLA general: ‘no mercy’ for Taiwan independence moves | South China Morning Post
• China and the US appear to restart military talks despite disputes over Taiwan and South China Sea [AP News]
• Two hours of terror and now years of devastation for Acapulco’s poor in Hurricane Otis aftermath [AP News]
• Exclusive: US military begins Japan seafood purchases to counter China ban [Reuters]
• China’s censors warn against ‘effusive comments’ while mourning Li Keqiang [Al Jazeera]
• S. Korea, U.S., Japan hold 1st trilateral working-level talks on humanitarian aid [Yonhap News Agency]
• UN says record 6.9 million people internally displaced in the DR Congo [Africa News]
Global National: Oct. 30, 2023 | Israel's assault pushes deeper into Gaza
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 30, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 30 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 30, 2023)
---COVID--- Boris Johnson's old Private Secretary cornered over lockdown-breaking parties at Covid Inquiry | PoliticsJOE
Boris Johnson's shocking 'mask-off' statements | openDemocracy
UK Covid-19 inquiry: Britain's public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic continues | Guadrian News
• New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe [The Globe and Mail ]
• Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now [CBS News]
• Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months [The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)]
• Effectiveness of Nirmatrelvir–Ritonavir Against the Development of Post–COVID-19 Conditions Among U.S. Veterans [Annals of Internal Medicine]
• TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology • The Sky This Week from October 27 to November 3: See the dark side of space [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 27 – November 5 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Apple Event - October 30 | Apple
Everything Apple Announced at Tonight's 'Scary Fast' Event! | MacRumors
• Apple introduces new M3 chip lineup, starting with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max [ARS TECHNICA]
• A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health advisers will review it next week [AP News]
• The politics of Biden’s vast new AI order [Politico]
• Excess fluoride linked to cognitive impairment in children [Tulane Today]
• Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago [TechSpot]
• Why did Twitter (X)’s valuation tank 56% in one year? [TechCrunch]
---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show October 31 2023: Air Force One Billion Dollars | Level1 Techs
AI Defense is Ramping Up - DTNS 4635 | Daily Tech News Show
Cordkillers 478 - Intermi-should (w/ Allison Sheridan) | Cordkiller
The Berserker Hypothesis and the Dark Forest | John Michael Godier
What Would Happen If The Earth Had Rings? | Joe Scott
You Don't Understand The Fermi Paradox | Fraser Cain
Secrets of the Universe: Neil Turok Public Lecture | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Infectious Disease Puscast #40 | Microbe TV
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War, October 30, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
“Gazan Infiltrator” Shot, Netanyahu Defends Ground Op, Rejects Ceasefire, Yellow Star Protests at UN | CRUX
Shani Louk ‘beheaded’ by Hamas after she was kidnapped at music festival and paraded by terrorists | New York Post News
WARNING:
— Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet (@ApostateProphet) October 31, 2023
The Palestinian Authority (West Bank) published a statement, which was preached to worshippers during the Friday prayer on October 20th, in which they called for the EXTERMINATION OF JEWS as prophesied by Muhammad.
The highlighted text says:
"6. He (Muhammad) said:… pic.twitter.com/RYQjbbJ08C
• Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and frees Hamas captive; Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire [AP News]
• Israel-Hamas war: Conservative MP Paul Bristow sacked from government post after calling for Gaza ceasefire [Sky News]
• Israel-Hamas war liveblog: Israeli attacks near Gaza City hospital spur ‘panic’ [Al Jazeera]
• Israel-Hamas war liveblog: Israel envoy wears yellow star at UN[DW News]
• IDF operates in Gaza, frees captive soldier - day 25 [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel’s bombardment of Gaza ongoing as military incursion deepens [Al Arabiya News]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 615) [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 30, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• FACT CHECK: How a baseless claim about Putin’s health spread from an unreliable Telegram account to TV news [AP News]
• Ukraine updates: Russia says 36 drones downed over Black Sea [DW News]
• Belarus's Lukashenko says Ukraine-Russia conflict at stalemate, urges talks [France 24]
• Moldova adds more Russian news agencies to its list of blocked sites [TVP World]
• Dispatches from Ukraine’s front lines: A predawn assault [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine’s allies plan US charm offensive [Politico]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ 🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
Ukraine Conflict (20231030): Full Frontline Update | ATP Geopolitics
Day 614: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
Brutal footage with edge-of-the-seat moments | Military Mind | TVP World
Kyiv says it's prepared for expected Russian attacks on cities this winter | DW News
President Zelensky anti-Israel? That's what these fabricated magazine covers want you to believe | France 24
Horrifying Moments! How Ukrainian Missile Destroys 5 Russian Fighter Aircraft | US Defense News
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On This Day
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 62 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)
637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of RÃo Salado.
1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
1817 – Simón BolÃvar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1975 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague RuzynÄ› Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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