Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Very cold air will settle into the region tonight through Wednesday, with another low pressure system approaching from the west Thursday night into Friday. Even colder air is expected to push into the region over the weekend.
WINTER WEATHER HAZARDS FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
Macon County is under a winter weather advisory until 7am this morning. A mass of very cold air will arrive tonight and overnight temperatures will plummet into the single digits and wind chills will be below zero for much of the day on Wednesday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A chance of rain or freezing rain before 7am, then a chance of rain between 7am and 8am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 30s falling to the lower 20s by 6pm. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 4. Wind chill values as low as -5. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 40. Wind chill values as low as -3. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper teens. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Thursday Night
A chance of rain and snow between 8pm and 10pm, then a chance of snow after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of freezing rain before 7am, then a chance of rain between 7am and 8am. Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 20 by 5pm. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 8. Wind chill values as low as -10. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near freezing. Wind chill values as low as -8. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 40.
Thursday Night
Snow likely, mainly between 8pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 30 percent chance of rain before 8am. Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 30s. Winds out of the north 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 7. Wind chill values as low as -3. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 40. Wind chill values as low as -3. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Light winds out of the northwest.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Thursday Night
A chance of rain and snow between 8pm and 10pm, then snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 28. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A chance of freezing rain before 7am, then a chance of snow between 7am and 8am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with temperatures falling from the lower 20s in the morning to the upper teens by 6pm. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 7. Wind chill values as low as -2. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 30s. Wind chill values as low as zero. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 40s.
Thursday Night
A chance of rain before 8pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 8pm and 10pm, then snow likely after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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Hazards
Very cold air will arrive tonight. Windy conditions and single digit low temperatures early Wednesday morning may produce bitter wind chill values of 5 to 15 degrees below zero.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST THIS MORNING...
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM EST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, freezing rain. Additional ice accumulations of a light glaze. For the Wind Chill Advisory, very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as 10 below zero.
* WHERE...Northern Jackson and Macon Counties.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, until 7 AM EST this morning. For the Wind Chill Advisory, from 6 PM this evening to 11 AM EST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commute. The cold wind chills could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Although the Winter Weather Advisory will likely be allowed to expire at 7 am EST this morning, A Special Weather Statement will likely be issued for ongoing hazardous road conditions in areas recently affected by ice and snow, and due to the arrival of very cold temperatures. Slippery road conditions may persist into Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Winter Weather Advisory for freezing rain means that periods of freezing rain or freezing drizzle will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads. Slow down and use caution while driving.
A Wind Chill Advisory means that very cold air and strong winds will combine to generate low wind chills. This will result in frost bite and lead to hypothermia if precautions are not taken. If you must venture outdoors, make sure you wear a hat and gloves.
Stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio or your favorite source of weather information for the latest updates. Additional details can be found at www.weather.gov/gsp. The latest state road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
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Record Weather Events for January 16th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 71°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2017
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Franklin in 1994
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.56 inches in Highlands in 1954
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1896
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1999
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Highlands on 01-12-2018
Greatest Snowfall 10.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-08-1988
Record Weather Events for January 16th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 85°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1937
Lowest Temperature -18°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1972
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Oconaluftee, Swain County in 2013
Greatest Snowfall 12.0 inches in Hickory, Burke County in 1965
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 86°F in Marion, Mcdowell County on 01-24-1927
Lowest Temperature -34°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 9.18 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 01-13-2018
Greatest Snowfall 28.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-28-1998
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
January Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
This is a reminder that Frog Quarters remains closed throughout this week, but we will reopen with our regular schedule (Wed thru Sat, 9a to 2p) beginning next week on January 3rd........Meaning Live MidDay Music will resume on Saturdays from 11a to 1p.
1/20/24—Melody Lowery—A talented singer/songwriter who’s quite the musician whether playing her favorite guitar or demonstrating her many years of schooling on the keyboard. She’s known around town for her original, Frogtown Girl—a Franklin, NC ballad.
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
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Mood booster sold at gas stations, vape shops linked to overdoses and deaths | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Snow makes a mid-January appearance in higher elevations of WNC [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is more than “I have a dream” at annual peace march and rally [BPR]
• Not just president, governor: NC's 2024 elections to bring high stakes, broad political turnover [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome podcast: Gridlock in Congress and NC primary endorsements [Raleigh News and Observer]
---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--
• Macon County Board of Commissioners | January 2024 Regular Meeting | [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council (January 2024 Regular Meeting) [Macon Media]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
• Macon County Board of Education December 2023 Meeting at Franklin High School [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
---NATIONAL---
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | ABC News
Severe winter weather delays flights across U.S. | CBS News
• These Four Questions Are Top of Mind for Investors in 2024 [Wall Street Journal]
• Arctic Cold Tests Texas Grid as Deep Freeze Grips Central US [Bloomberg]
• Why return-to-office mandates fail [Computerworld]
• Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP--- 2024 Iowa Caucus Results Democrats will not caucus this year. Participants will mail in a Presidential preference card by March 5th. Republicans (5% turnout)
| Candidate | Delegates | Total Votes | % Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump | 20 | 56,210 | 51.0% |
| DeSantis | 8 | 23,400 | 21.2% |
| Haley | 7 | 21,076 | 19.1% |
| Ramaswamy | 3 | 8,447 | 7.7% |
Iowa voter turnout lower than expected for 2024 caucus | NBC News
• Trump notches a commanding win in the Iowa caucuses as DeSantis edges Haley for second place [AP News]
• Iowa Caucus Republican Entrance Poll [NBC News]
• News Outlets Declared Trump the Winner as Iowans Still Caucused [New York Times]
• Trump flexes and the rest of the field fades: 5 takeaways from a big night in Iowa [Politics]
• Trump loses attorney Joe Tacopina as porn star hush money trial looms [CNBC]
International News Headlines
Myanmar: Rebel group says its captured strategic town from ruling military | BBC News
Iran launches missile strikes against targets in Syria and northern Iraq | WION Newspoint
• Turkish air strikes target northern Iraq and Syria [Al Jazeera]
• With ‘God’s-eye view,’ secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on Russia and Ukraine [AP News]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Israel-Hamas War: IDF fights in Gaza, shots fired at Egyptian border [Jerusalem Post]
---World Economic Forum at Davos 2024---
Generative AI: Steam Engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? | World Economic Forum
Global Risks Report 2024 | World Economic Forum
• Davos live updates: Global leaders discuss the impact of high interest rates and the new normal [CNBC]
• Davos: Young entrepreneurs make their mark at WEF [DW News]
• Five richest men doubled fortunes after 2020, Oxfam says as Davos opens [Al Jazeera]
Meet the Press full broadcast – Jan. 14 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Manchin, Kirby, Sununu | Face the Nation
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 1/12/24
Washington Today (1-12-24): Pres. Biden says Houthi strikes 'delivered a message to Iran' | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Jan. 15, 2024 | Alberta blackout scare prompts concerns over power supply
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan 15 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Jan. 15, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Jan 15 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (January 15, 2024)
---OTHER VIDEO NEWS---
New Rockets, New Tech, and New Glenn | This Week In Spaceflight | NASA Spaceflight
NASA’s X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft revealed in California | Video From Space
Best of CES 2024 | The Verge
🔴 (viewer discretion advised) US and UK Strike Houthi's in Yemen | Combat Footage Show
News from the Press Site: A roundup of the week's space news | Spaceflight Now
TWiV 1078: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
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On This Day
January 16th is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 349 days remain until the end of the year (350 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba.
1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 – Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1537 – Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins.
1547 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1757 – Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1786 – Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1809 РPeninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coru̱a.
1847 РJohn C. Fr̩mont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village SúðavÃk, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
2001 РCongolese President Laurent-D̩sir̩ Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
2011 – The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.
2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2018 – Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
2020 – The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
2020 – The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, January 16, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
Global Risks Report 2024 | World Economic Forum
• Davos live updates: Global leaders discuss the impact of high interest rates and the new normal [CNBC]
• Davos: Young entrepreneurs make their mark at WEF [DW News]
• Five richest men doubled fortunes after 2020, Oxfam says as Davos opens [Al Jazeera]
Meet the Press full broadcast – Jan. 14 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Manchin, Kirby, Sununu | Face the Nation
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 1/12/24
Washington Today (1-12-24): Pres. Biden says Houthi strikes 'delivered a message to Iran' | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Jan. 15, 2024 | Alberta blackout scare prompts concerns over power supply
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan 15 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Jan. 15, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Jan 15 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (January 15, 2024)
---OTHER VIDEO NEWS---
New Rockets, New Tech, and New Glenn | This Week In Spaceflight | NASA Spaceflight
NASA’s X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft revealed in California | Video From Space
Best of CES 2024 | The Verge
🔴 (viewer discretion advised) US and UK Strike Houthi's in Yemen | Combat Footage Show
News from the Press Site: A roundup of the week's space news | Spaceflight Now
TWiV 1078: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
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On This Day
January 16th is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 349 days remain until the end of the year (350 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba.
1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 – Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1537 – Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins.
1547 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1757 – Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1786 – Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1809 РPeninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coru̱a.
1847 РJohn C. Fr̩mont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village SúðavÃk, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
2001 РCongolese President Laurent-D̩sir̩ Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
2011 – The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.
2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2018 – Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
2020 – The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
2020 – The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, January 16, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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