Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain over the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia through today. A cold front will approach from the west on Thursday and cross the region bringing some rain Thursday night through Friday morning. Dry weather returns for the weekend as another front settles south into the region. Well above normal temperatures are expected early next week.
INCREASED FIRE DANGER TODAY
Dry air in place across the region will permit afternoon relative humidity values to fall to between 30 and 35 percent for several hours across the region today. Although winds will be fairly light from the southwest, drying fuels and brush will combine with the dry air to increase fire danger this afternoon.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southeast early in the morning increasing to come out of the south southwest 15 to 20 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 14 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Windy.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Windy.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the low to mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Windy.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Windy.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Windy.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southeast before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10am, then a slight chance of showers between 10am and noon. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards
It will be dry again today. Winds will increase tom orrow afternoon ahead of rain.
Dry air in place across the region will permit afternoon relative humidity values to fall to between 30 and 35 percent for several hours across the region. Although winds will be fairly light from the southwest, drying fuels and brush will combine with the dry air to increase fire danger this afternoon.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
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Record Weather Events for February 21st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 75°F in Franklin in 1986
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Highlands in 1896
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.81 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1953
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.5 inches in Highlands in 1960
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 (also a state record)
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 21st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Cedar Island, Carteret County in 2018
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 2015
Greatest Rainfall 5.84 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1953
Greatest Snowfall 8.0 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1936
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
2-24-24---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. 3-2-24—Bill Peterson & Charley Simmons--What a treat! You'll hear originals by both these guys along with some covers. Bill has that booming voice on his blues selections (ask him to play his cheeky dog songs:) & Charley has the finger-style guitar down pat with his songs.
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
Tobago Oil Spill | Identification of Tug and Barge & Connection to Venezuela Oil | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (2-20-24): US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council for 3rd time | C-SPAN
Global National: Feb. 20, 2024 | Ex-Ontario nuclear plant worker charged in secretive leak case
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 20 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 18, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 20 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 20, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (The Holocaust) | Dan Carlin
• EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (audio) [Dan Carlin (via Google Podcasts)]
• The Sky This Week from February 16 to 23: Venus meets Mars [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 16-25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show February 21 2024: They Were All Of Them Deceived, For Another Price Was Made | Level1 Techs
Baby Come Back, To iPad Mini - DTNS 4709 | Daily Tech News Show
Leica Liking Friends - Android Faithful #32 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
February 21st is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 313 days remain until the end of the year (314 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)
452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (e.g. Finland) to Russia.
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.[2]
1934 – Augusto Sandino is executed.
1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1945 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2013 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, February 21, 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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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southeast early in the morning increasing to come out of the south southwest 15 to 20 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 14 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Windy.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Windy.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the low to mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Windy.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Windy.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Windy.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southeast before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10am, then a slight chance of showers between 10am and noon. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards
It will be dry again today. Winds will increase tom orrow afternoon ahead of rain.
Dry air in place across the region will permit afternoon relative humidity values to fall to between 30 and 35 percent for several hours across the region. Although winds will be fairly light from the southwest, drying fuels and brush will combine with the dry air to increase fire danger this afternoon.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
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Record Weather Events for February 21st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 75°F in Franklin in 1986
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Highlands in 1896
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.81 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1953
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.5 inches in Highlands in 1960
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 (also a state record)
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 21st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Cedar Island, Carteret County in 2018
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 2015
Greatest Rainfall 5.84 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1953
Greatest Snowfall 8.0 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1936
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
2-24-24---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. 3-2-24—Bill Peterson & Charley Simmons--What a treat! You'll hear originals by both these guys along with some covers. Bill has that booming voice on his blues selections (ask him to play his cheeky dog songs:) & Charley has the finger-style guitar down pat with his songs.
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
Tobago Oil Spill | Identification of Tug and Barge & Connection to Venezuela Oil | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (2-20-24): US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council for 3rd time | C-SPAN
Global National: Feb. 20, 2024 | Ex-Ontario nuclear plant worker charged in secretive leak case
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 20 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 18, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 20 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 20, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (The Holocaust) | Dan Carlin
• EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (audio) [Dan Carlin (via Google Podcasts)]
• The Sky This Week from February 16 to 23: Venus meets Mars [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 16-25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show February 21 2024: They Were All Of Them Deceived, For Another Price Was Made | Level1 Techs
Baby Come Back, To iPad Mini - DTNS 4709 | Daily Tech News Show
Leica Liking Friends - Android Faithful #32 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
February 21st is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 313 days remain until the end of the year (314 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)
452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (e.g. Finland) to Russia.
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.[2]
1934 – Augusto Sandino is executed.
1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1945 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2013 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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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 Wednesday, February 21, 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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