Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure builds into the region. Dry and mild air returns through the most of the work week with a cold front approaching the area on Friday. Possible rain chances return next weekend. Temperatures remain cool and mild.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming light and variable by noon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the south in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph shifting to come out of the north before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 60 Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph in the morning decreasing to light and variable in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the east around 5 mph decreasing to being calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
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.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Record Weather Events for February 5th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.22 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1960
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1929
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of February Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 79°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1996
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 02-13-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.37 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 02-13-1966
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Highlands on 02-14-1912
Record Weather Events for February 5th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Wilmington, New Hanover County in 1957
Lowest Temperature -15°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1996
Greatest Rainfall 3.05 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County in 2016
Greatest Snowfall 20.1 inches in Lexington, Davidson County in 1905
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of February Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 88°F in New Bern, Craven County on 02-28-1962
Lowest Temperature -20°F in Brevard, Transylvania County on 02-17-1958
Greatest Rainfall 8.83 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 02-13-1966
Greatest Snowfall 24.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 02-12-1985
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
February 2024 Schedule
2-10-24---Barry Roma—This guy has all the Classic love songs under his belt—Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Mathis and much more. Travel down Memory Lane with Barry Roma. Barry’s baritone voice brings those love songs alive and gets us all in the mood for Valentine’s Day.
2-17-24---Paul Linser and Charlie Simmons—Two award-winning finger-style pickers that we’re always happy to have at Frog Quarters. You’ll hear covers and originals from Charlie and Paul as they keep us all entertained for MidDay Music.
2-24-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band---Enjoy hearing Jim’s Band as they play the big sound of real, classic country—songs that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. Jim and the fellas are always a popular group with the crowd at Frog Quarters.
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---
• Forbes Advisor ranks North Carolina third worst for healthcare [WITN-TV (Washington, NC)]
• Under the Dome: Candidates for governor and AG report their latest fundraising hauls [Raleigh News and Observer]
---RECENT STATE AND LOCAL NEWS---
• Feds cite Asheville’s Mission Hospital for “immediate jeopardy,” HCA division president tells staff [Mountain Xpress]
• Duke Energy seeks new ways to meet the Carolinas' surging electric demand [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome: What NC districts are challenged in new fair elections lawsuit? [Raleigh News and observer]
• From risk to resiliency: State waters summit highlights red tape, funding deficiencies [Smoky Mountain NEws]
Snerd the Garner groundhog predicts an early spring! | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Feds cite Asheville’s Mission Hospital for “immediate jeopardy,” HCA division president tells staff [Asheville Watchdog]
• Shuttered due to landslides & repair, Sylva's Bryson Park nears reopening; input wanted [WLOS-TV 9Asheville, NC)]
• Blue Ridge Parkway saw 16.7 million visitors in 2023 – more visitors than the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite national parks combined [BPR]
• Charlotte-area police have seized so much money through asset forfeiture, they can't even spend it all [WCNC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
• Final program cuts announced at UNCG
List includes 20 programs, one of which will transition to a new department [NC Newsline]
• Troxler: NC farms under threat from rapid growth [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--
• NC DPI Awards $62 Million Grant for Construction of a New Franklin High School [Macon Media]
• Macon County Board of Education January 2024 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• 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---
Fed Chair Jerome Powell: The 2024 60 Minutes Interview
Speaker Johnson defends Mayorkas impeachment: ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’ | NBC News
• Senate negotiators release sweeping border and military aid bill [Washington Post]
• The Money and Drugs That Tie Elon Musk to Some Tesla Directors [Wall Street Journal]
• The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down [The Atlantic]
• Michigan city ramps up security after op-ed calls it ‘America’s jihad capital’ [Politico]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
NBC Poll: Trump increases lead over Biden, now up by 5 points | NBC News
• Saudi Arabia pushes for U.S. defence pact ahead of presidential election [Reuters]
• Donald Trump says he would impose tariffs on China again if re-elected in November [South China Morning Post]
• Biden celebrates South Carolina primary win [Politico]
International News Headlines
Pakistan elections set to take place amid arrest rows | BBC News
Wildfires claim dozens of lives in Chile | DW News
• Sweeping reform bill inches toward passage in Argentina [Courthouse News Service]
• At least 99 dead in Chile as forest fires ravage densely populated areas [CBS News]
• El Salvador's President Bukele claims election victory [BBC News]
• Germany: Tens of thousands in Berlin protest far right [DW News]
• India-Taliban thaw on Afghanistan: What really is happening? [Hindustan Times]
---International Conflicts ---
Why is Yemen the Way it is? - XX Century History | Kings and Generals
Day 711: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
• U.S. Strikes Iranian-Backed Targets for Third Day in a Row [New York Times]
• Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues fall by almost half after Red Sea attacks: Official [Al Arabiya]
• Hamas makes bombs from medical supplies [YNET News]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 4, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 711: Ukraine selects Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil, with their song “Teresa & Maria” to represent the country at Eurovision 2024 [Euromaidan Press]
• Russia: Police detain journalists at Moscow anti-war protest [DW News]
Meet the Press full broadcast – Feb. 04 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Turner, Himes, McKenzie | Feb. 04, 2024
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Feb. 2, 2024
Washington Today (2-2-24): January jobs report much stronger than expected | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Feb. 4, 2024 | US, UK launch new wave of strikes on Yemen’s Houthis over weekend
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 04, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 3, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 04 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 04, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
• The Sky This Week from February 2 to 9: A last look at Mercury [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 2 – 11 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show January 30 2024: Facial Facsimilie| Level1 Techs
Apple Vision Pros and Cons - DTNS 4698 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
February 5th is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 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)
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1807 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1901 – J. P. Morgan forms $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business.
1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1967 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, February 05, 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.
• Saudi Arabia pushes for U.S. defence pact ahead of presidential election [Reuters]
• Donald Trump says he would impose tariffs on China again if re-elected in November [South China Morning Post]
• Biden celebrates South Carolina primary win [Politico]
International News Headlines
Pakistan elections set to take place amid arrest rows | BBC News
Wildfires claim dozens of lives in Chile | DW News
• Sweeping reform bill inches toward passage in Argentina [Courthouse News Service]
• At least 99 dead in Chile as forest fires ravage densely populated areas [CBS News]
• El Salvador's President Bukele claims election victory [BBC News]
• Germany: Tens of thousands in Berlin protest far right [DW News]
• India-Taliban thaw on Afghanistan: What really is happening? [Hindustan Times]
---International Conflicts ---
Why is Yemen the Way it is? - XX Century History | Kings and Generals
Day 711: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
• U.S. Strikes Iranian-Backed Targets for Third Day in a Row [New York Times]
• Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues fall by almost half after Red Sea attacks: Official [Al Arabiya]
• Hamas makes bombs from medical supplies [YNET News]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 4, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 711: Ukraine selects Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil, with their song “Teresa & Maria” to represent the country at Eurovision 2024 [Euromaidan Press]
• Russia: Police detain journalists at Moscow anti-war protest [DW News]
Meet the Press full broadcast – Feb. 04 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Turner, Himes, McKenzie | Feb. 04, 2024
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Feb. 2, 2024
Washington Today (2-2-24): January jobs report much stronger than expected | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Feb. 4, 2024 | US, UK launch new wave of strikes on Yemen’s Houthis over weekend
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 04, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 3, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 04 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 04, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
• The Sky This Week from February 2 to 9: A last look at Mercury [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 2 – 11 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show January 30 2024: Facial Facsimilie| Level1 Techs
Apple Vision Pros and Cons - DTNS 4698 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
February 5th is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 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)
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1807 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1901 – J. P. Morgan forms $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business.
1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1967 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.
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Support Macon Media
If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
Or, if you prefer Pay Pal, try PayPal.me/MaconMedia
Published at 5:00am on Monday, February 05, 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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