Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
The weather pattern remains active through the middle of the week with numerous mainly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. The hot upper level ridge to our west influences our weather late in the week with well above normal temperatures. A cold front will approach from the northwest during the weekend but may not reach our area as hot weather continues.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light and variable winds. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 3am, then patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 90.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8am. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the mid-to-late afternoon. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 7am. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Light and variable winds. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 3am, then patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 10am. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light north northwest wind. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 70. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 90.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with lows around 70.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southwest. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the mid-to-late afternoon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds becoming west northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s.
Hazards
Showers and storms will continue today and tonight. The potential for localized flooding will continue. Additionally, some storms could be strong to marginally severe today and overnight tonight with damaging winds and additional heavy rainfall as the main threat. Timing confidence is very low. By daytime Wednesday, the odds of organized thunderstorms becomes low, and the risk of attendant flooding potential also becomes low.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Jul 30 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Near the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas:
A large tropical wave centered several hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands is producing limited shower activity due to dry air aloft. Environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for development over the warmer waters of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean during the next day or two, and a tropical depression could form late this week while the system is in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles or the Bahamas. Interests in the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas, and the southeastern U.S. should monitor the progress of this system.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (3.7 out of 12) today with Grasses and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (5.4 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for July 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 94°F in Franklin in 1952
Lowest Temperature 44°F in Highlands in 1911
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.00 inches in Highlands in 1878
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of July
(Data available from 1872)
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for July 30th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 107°F in Shelby, Cleveland County in 1952
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.97 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2014
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Jefferson, Ashe County on 06-17-1917
Greatest Rainfall 12.41 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 06-30-1962
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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---
What lies buried 20,000 feet under the Appalachian Mountains? | TheGeoModels
1-year-old dies after boat capsizes on Fontana Lake | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Federal government approves NC medical debt relief plan | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• 'Wasn't the right time': NC Gov. Roy Cooper withdraws from VP consideration [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• In The Spotlight: NC governor’s race: VP watch, DHHS findings, new Stein and Robinson ads [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park hit by flood [BBC News]
• Western North Carolina sees voter registration surge; up over 30,000 since 2020 [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC) ]
• Partisan split on pushing HCA to sell Mission Health? NC, US legislative candidates [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• New coalition launches in bid to pressure HCA to sell Mission Health System [BPR News]
---NATIONAL---
SWAT team details what happened the day Trump was shot: Exclusive | ABC News
• FBI says Trump agreed to victim interview about assassination attempt [CBS News]
President Biden Proposes Changes for the U.S. Supreme Court | C-SPAN
• Biden calls for major Supreme Court reforms, including term limits, at Civil Rights Act event Monday [CNN (via Yahoo News)]
• U.S. economy grew at a 2.8% pace in the second quarter, much more than expected [CNBC]
• Elon Musk warned twice by X for spreading 'fake' Venezuela election interference video [Daily Express USA]
• Biden proposes Supreme Court reforms [SCOTUSblogx]
• Construction company in Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored safety standards, OSHA says [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for July 30th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 107°F in Shelby, Cleveland County in 1952
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.97 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2014
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Jefferson, Ashe County on 06-17-1917
Greatest Rainfall 12.41 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 06-30-1962
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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---
What lies buried 20,000 feet under the Appalachian Mountains? | TheGeoModels
1-year-old dies after boat capsizes on Fontana Lake | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Federal government approves NC medical debt relief plan | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• 'Wasn't the right time': NC Gov. Roy Cooper withdraws from VP consideration [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• In The Spotlight: NC governor’s race: VP watch, DHHS findings, new Stein and Robinson ads [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park hit by flood [BBC News]
• Western North Carolina sees voter registration surge; up over 30,000 since 2020 [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC) ]
• Partisan split on pushing HCA to sell Mission Health? NC, US legislative candidates [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• New coalition launches in bid to pressure HCA to sell Mission Health System [BPR News]
---NATIONAL---
SWAT team details what happened the day Trump was shot: Exclusive | ABC News
• FBI says Trump agreed to victim interview about assassination attempt [CBS News]
President Biden Proposes Changes for the U.S. Supreme Court | C-SPAN
• Biden calls for major Supreme Court reforms, including term limits, at Civil Rights Act event Monday [CNN (via Yahoo News)]
• U.S. economy grew at a 2.8% pace in the second quarter, much more than expected [CNBC]
• Elon Musk warned twice by X for spreading 'fake' Venezuela election interference video [Daily Express USA]
• Biden proposes Supreme Court reforms [SCOTUSblogx]
• Construction company in Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored safety standards, OSHA says [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on "The Takeout" | July 28, 2024 | CBS News
FULL SPEECH: Presient Trump talks at Nashville Bitcoin conference | WTVF-TV (Nasheville, TN)
'A lot has to go wrong' for Harris to lose: Esteemed election forecaster | NewsNation
James Carville | Full Episode 7.26.24 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
• Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers [AP News]
• U.S. intelligence official: Russia will likely use propaganda to support Trump over Harris [NBC News (via Yahoo News)]
• Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say [Courthouse]
• Trump wavers on Harris debate, says he could ‘make a case’ for skipping [CNBC]
• Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch,’ at odds with campaign [Washington Post]
• Why the Kamala Harris of Four Years Ago Could Haunt Her in 2024 [New York Times]
International News Headlines
ILTV News Flash - War Day 297 July 29, 2024
Iran: Old Revolution, New President, New Weapons | How We Got Here | TVP World
• Venezuela election: Opposition says it has proof it won [DW News]
• Paris Olympics: Men's triathlon race postponed due to Seine pollution levels [France 24]
• N.K. leader's daughter being groomed to succeed Kim: lawmakers [Yonhap News Agency]
• Edging Toward Japan: The problem of over-tourism in Japan is founded on a historical misconception [The Mainichi]
• Kerala: 24 killed, dozens still missing as massive landslides hit Wayanad | Latest updates [Hindustan Times]
• Ukraine's hopes and challenges after long wait for F-16s [BBC News]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• The secret to the success of BRICS is not what it is, but what it’s not [Russia Today]
• Venezuela's recovering socialist economy ensures Maduro's reelection [Pravda]
• Washington wasting money on Ukraine as US national debt tops $35 trillion — Russian envoy [TASS: Russian News Agency]
Project 2025 on Maritime Policy? | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (7-29-24): Pres. Biden proposes Supreme Court Justice term limits & code of conduct | C-SPAN
Global National: July 29, 2024 | Team Canada wins its 1st gold medals of Paris Olympics
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 29, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | July 29, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 29, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (July 29, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Major Breakthrough! Controlling Placebo Effect Using Brain Stimulation | Anton Petrov
This Week in Linux #273: Linux Mint 22, COSMIC Desktop on Pop!_OS, Gaming Distros, & more Linux news
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 26 to August 2: Catch the Southern Delta Aquariids [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 26 – August 3 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Remembering David Crawford (1931–2024) [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show July 30 2024: Nice Flight, Shame If It Were Cancelled | Level1 Techs
The Laws of AI Coming Soon - DTNS 4818 | Daily Tech News Show
On This Day
July 30th is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 154 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
• [Wikipedia: Hussites]
• [Wikipedia: First Defenestration of Prague]
• [Unbiased History: The Defenestrations of Prague]
• [Wikipedia: Bohemian Reformation]
• [First Defenestration of Prague] (1955 Dramatization in Czech, no translation)
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656 – The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
• [Wikipedia: Declaration of the People of Virginia]
• [Text at The Avalon Project]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist)]
• [33 - 'The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion' by Ebenezer Cook (1728)]
• [Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion]
• [amestown - Bacon's Rebellion] (Khan Academy)
• [Bacon's Rebellion: Racism in America | Michael Trownsell | TS]
1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
• [Wikipedia: Box Elder Treaty]
• [Wikipedia: American Indian Wars]
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Crater]
• [Battle of The Crater at Petersburg: War Department] (American Battlefield Trust)
• [Battle of the Crater: Everyone Into the Hole]
• [nder Siege! - S01E05: Petersburg 1864 - Full Documentary]
• [Eyewitness to the Battle of the Crater (North)]
• [Cold Mountain - Battle of the Crater (Seige of Petersburg)] (Dramatization)
1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
• [94-year-old survivor of the USS Indianapolis sinking, tells his story]
• [Wikipedia: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]
• [The Story of the Deadliest Shark Attack in US History]
• [An Exclusive First Look Inside USS Indianapolis Wreckage Underwater | TODAY (2017)]
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
• [Wikipedia: In God We Trust]
• [The Real Reason 'In God We Trust' Is On The U.S. Dollar]
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• [Wikipedia: Social Security Amendments of 1965]
• [Medicare and Medicaid at 50 (2017)]
1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
• [News Reel Footage]
1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
• [Wikipedia: Apollo 15]
• [APOLLO 15 Landing (stabilized video)]
• [Apollo 15: "Never Been on a Ride like this Before"] (NASA Video)
• [Apollo 15 in 60fps: Rover Traverse To Station 4]
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• [Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance: News Reports 1975 - 1980]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Jimmy Hoffa]
• [LINKTEXT]
1978 – The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
• [Wikipedia: Jerusalem Law]
1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
1990 – Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2020 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
• [Live NASA Webcast]
• [SciNews Highlight Reel]
• [Wikipedia: Mars 2020]
• [Official Website]
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Author: Bobby Coggins
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FULL SPEECH: Presient Trump talks at Nashville Bitcoin conference | WTVF-TV (Nasheville, TN)
'A lot has to go wrong' for Harris to lose: Esteemed election forecaster | NewsNation
James Carville | Full Episode 7.26.24 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
• Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers [AP News]
• U.S. intelligence official: Russia will likely use propaganda to support Trump over Harris [NBC News (via Yahoo News)]
• Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say [Courthouse]
• Trump wavers on Harris debate, says he could ‘make a case’ for skipping [CNBC]
• Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch,’ at odds with campaign [Washington Post]
• Why the Kamala Harris of Four Years Ago Could Haunt Her in 2024 [New York Times]
International News Headlines
ILTV News Flash - War Day 297 July 29, 2024
Iran: Old Revolution, New President, New Weapons | How We Got Here | TVP World
• Venezuela election: Opposition says it has proof it won [DW News]
• Paris Olympics: Men's triathlon race postponed due to Seine pollution levels [France 24]
• N.K. leader's daughter being groomed to succeed Kim: lawmakers [Yonhap News Agency]
• Edging Toward Japan: The problem of over-tourism in Japan is founded on a historical misconception [The Mainichi]
• Kerala: 24 killed, dozens still missing as massive landslides hit Wayanad | Latest updates [Hindustan Times]
• Ukraine's hopes and challenges after long wait for F-16s [BBC News]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• The secret to the success of BRICS is not what it is, but what it’s not [Russia Today]
• Venezuela's recovering socialist economy ensures Maduro's reelection [Pravda]
• Washington wasting money on Ukraine as US national debt tops $35 trillion — Russian envoy [TASS: Russian News Agency]
Project 2025 on Maritime Policy? | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (7-29-24): Pres. Biden proposes Supreme Court Justice term limits & code of conduct | C-SPAN
Global National: July 29, 2024 | Team Canada wins its 1st gold medals of Paris Olympics
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 29, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | July 29, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 29, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (July 29, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Major Breakthrough! Controlling Placebo Effect Using Brain Stimulation | Anton Petrov
This Week in Linux #273: Linux Mint 22, COSMIC Desktop on Pop!_OS, Gaming Distros, & more Linux news
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 26 to August 2: Catch the Southern Delta Aquariids [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 26 – August 3 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Remembering David Crawford (1931–2024) [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show July 30 2024: Nice Flight, Shame If It Were Cancelled | Level1 Techs
The Laws of AI Coming Soon - DTNS 4818 | Daily Tech News Show
On This Day
July 30th is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 154 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
• [Wikipedia: Hussites]
• [Wikipedia: First Defenestration of Prague]
• [Unbiased History: The Defenestrations of Prague]
• [Wikipedia: Bohemian Reformation]
• [First Defenestration of Prague] (1955 Dramatization in Czech, no translation)
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656 – The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
• [Wikipedia: Declaration of the People of Virginia]
• [Text at The Avalon Project]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist)]
• [33 - 'The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion' by Ebenezer Cook (1728)]
• [Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion]
• [amestown - Bacon's Rebellion] (Khan Academy)
• [Bacon's Rebellion: Racism in America | Michael Trownsell | TS]
1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
• [Wikipedia: Box Elder Treaty]
• [Wikipedia: American Indian Wars]
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Crater]
• [Battle of The Crater at Petersburg: War Department] (American Battlefield Trust)
• [Battle of the Crater: Everyone Into the Hole]
• [nder Siege! - S01E05: Petersburg 1864 - Full Documentary]
• [Eyewitness to the Battle of the Crater (North)]
• [Cold Mountain - Battle of the Crater (Seige of Petersburg)] (Dramatization)
1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
• [94-year-old survivor of the USS Indianapolis sinking, tells his story]
• [Wikipedia: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]
• [The Story of the Deadliest Shark Attack in US History]
• [An Exclusive First Look Inside USS Indianapolis Wreckage Underwater | TODAY (2017)]
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
• [Wikipedia: In God We Trust]
• [The Real Reason 'In God We Trust' Is On The U.S. Dollar]
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• [Wikipedia: Social Security Amendments of 1965]
• [Medicare and Medicaid at 50 (2017)]
1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
• [News Reel Footage]
1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
• [Wikipedia: Apollo 15]
• [APOLLO 15 Landing (stabilized video)]
• [Apollo 15: "Never Been on a Ride like this Before"] (NASA Video)
• [Apollo 15 in 60fps: Rover Traverse To Station 4]
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• [Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance: News Reports 1975 - 1980]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Jimmy Hoffa]
• [LINKTEXT]
1978 – The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
• [Wikipedia: Jerusalem Law]
1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
1990 – Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2020 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
• [Live NASA Webcast]
• [SciNews Highlight Reel]
• [Wikipedia: Mars 2020]
• [Official Website]
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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