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Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
As a slow moving front sinks further south today, expect showers and thunderstorms mainly over the mountains. Drier high pressure takes control of our weather from Monday night through the rest of the week. Temperatures will be just a little below normal through at least Thursday then a warming trend over the weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tonight
Franklin Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A slight chance of showers in the mid-to-late afternoon. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the north 3 to 7 mph. The chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the north.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards
The probability of widespread hazardous weather is low. Isolated thunderstorms are possible each afternoon from Thursday through Saturday.
Tropical Update
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Aug 19 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Ernesto, located over the western Atlantic a few hundred miles south of Atlantic Canada.
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
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Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (8.5 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (9.0 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 95°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1999
Lowest Temperature 48°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.19 inches in Highlands in 1935
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 August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 19th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1988
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Jefferson, Ashe County in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.18 inches in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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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)
August 2024 Schedule
8-24-24—Barry Roma—King of the Area Crooners, come hear Barry lend his baritone voice to oldies by Sinatra, Orbison, Johnny Mathis and more. You’ll fall in love just like you did in the 50’s and 60’s by the light of that drive-in screen.
8-31-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band—Country Classics that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. You’ll love the history of the artists and the big sound of the band with Jim Austin and his talented group.
For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.
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
Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos Full Broadcast - Sunday, August 18, 2024 | ABC News
Meet the Press (full broadcast) – Aug. 18 | NBC News
Face the Nation: Beshear, Goolsbee, Milgram | Aug 18, 2024
2024 Campaign Trail: Last Week of Pre-DNC Campaigning | C-SPAN
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, August 16, 2024
Terminal Ownership | Shifts in Terminal Operator Rankings & Consolidation of Global Terminals | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-16-24): Dem Pres nominee VP Harris details ways to 'lower the cost of living' | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 18, 2024 | GTA hit with record rainfall, tornado touches down in Ayr
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 18, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 18, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 17, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 18, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication | Sabine Hossenfelder
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 16 to 23: It’s a Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 16 – 25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show August 16 2024: Paid In Second Breakfasts | Level1 Techs
No Secrets in Security – DTNS 4834 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
August 19th is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 134 days remain until the end of the year.
It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the United Kingdom, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
• [VENUS - THE MOTHER OF ROME]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges]
• [Wikipedia: Third Samnite War]
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• [Wikipedia Article]
947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Ascalon]
• [Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jerusalem]
• [First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon 1099 AD] (BazBattles)
1458 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.
1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
• [Samlesbury witches]
• [Dark Age Britain's War With Witchcraft | A Century Of Murder | Timeline]
• [The Pendle Witches | Samlesbury Hall | Lancashire Witches | Pendle Hill] (Dramatization)
1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• [Wikipedia: Salem witch trials]
• [What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac]
• [alem Witch Trial Full Documentary The Geographic Channel]
1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1745 – Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Blue Licks]
• [Blue Licks Battle]
• [Blue Licks Battle]
1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Wikipedia: USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere]
• [USS Constitution Museum]
1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
• [Wikipedia: First Sioux War]
• [Sioux Wars | 3 Minute History]
• [History of the Indian Wars | Full Documentary]
1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 – American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1909 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. Wilfred Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
1920 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• [Wikipedia: Soap Box Derby]
• [Official website]
• [Newsreel of the 1936 Derby]
1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer by a vote of 89.93% for and 10.07% against.
• [Wikipedia: 1934 German referendum]
• [German Referendum - 1934 | Today In History]
• [Why Did The German People Choose Hitler? | Hitler's Propaganda Machine | Timeline]
1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.
1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
• [Dieppe Raid]
• [The Dieppe Raid | Narrated by Alex Trebek]
• [Dieppe 1942 - Slaughter on the Shingle]
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• [Wikipedia: Hurricane Diane]
• [Hurricane Diane Flood of 1955 - PHMC Author Presentation]
• [Hurricane Diane (Scranton, PA): WGBI-TV Footage Can 23] (Silent Film)
1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Francis Gary Powers]
• [What Really Happened when Gary Powers was Shot Down] (Vintage Space)
• [Newsreel of Trial]
• [Gary Powers' U-2 is Shot Down Over the Soviet Union - Animated]
1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
• [Wikipedia: Korabl-Sputnik 2]
• [Italian newsreel about Belka and Strelka (Sputnik 5 - Korabl-Sputnik 2)] (subtitles available)
• [Belka and Strelka – the Soviet space dogs]
1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
• [NASA Page for Satellite]
• [Wikipedia]
• [Gunter's Space Page]
1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1978 – In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• [Wikipedia: Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]
• [1981 Gulf of Sidra incident radio records [F-14 vs Su-22]]
• [WAVY Archive: 1981 USS Nimitz - Libyan Air Craft Incident]
1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
• [Wikipedia: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt]
• [The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR - August Coup of 1991 (Short Animated Documentary)]
• [The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup — ABC News (1991)]
• [Wikipedia: Dissolution of the Soviet Union]
1991 – Crown Heights riot begins.
1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
• [Wikipedia: Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break]
• ['Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands Of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm]
• [Washinton State Dept of Natural Resources]
• [Frankenfish A Farmed Atlantic Salmon Story by Annie Crawley]
2020 Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, August 187, 2024
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.
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (8.5 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (9.0 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 95°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1999
Lowest Temperature 48°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.19 inches in Highlands in 1935
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 August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 19th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1988
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Jefferson, Ashe County in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.18 inches in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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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)
August 2024 Schedule
8-24-24—Barry Roma—King of the Area Crooners, come hear Barry lend his baritone voice to oldies by Sinatra, Orbison, Johnny Mathis and more. You’ll fall in love just like you did in the 50’s and 60’s by the light of that drive-in screen.
8-31-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band—Country Classics that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. You’ll love the history of the artists and the big sound of the band with Jim Austin and his talented group.
For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.
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
Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
---NATIONAL---
This Week with George Stephanopoulos Full Broadcast - Sunday, August 18, 2024 | ABC News
Meet the Press (full broadcast) – Aug. 18 | NBC News
Face the Nation: Beshear, Goolsbee, Milgram | Aug 18, 2024
2024 Campaign Trail: Last Week of Pre-DNC Campaigning | C-SPAN
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, August 16, 2024
Terminal Ownership | Shifts in Terminal Operator Rankings & Consolidation of Global Terminals | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-16-24): Dem Pres nominee VP Harris details ways to 'lower the cost of living' | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 18, 2024 | GTA hit with record rainfall, tornado touches down in Ayr
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 18, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 18, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 17, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 18, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication | Sabine Hossenfelder
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 16 to 23: It’s a Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 16 – 25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show August 16 2024: Paid In Second Breakfasts | Level1 Techs
No Secrets in Security – DTNS 4834 | Daily Tech News Show
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On This Day
August 19th is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 134 days remain until the end of the year.
It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the United Kingdom, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
• [VENUS - THE MOTHER OF ROME]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges]
• [Wikipedia: Third Samnite War]
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• [Wikipedia Article]
947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Ascalon]
• [Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jerusalem]
• [First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon 1099 AD] (BazBattles)
1458 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.
1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
• [Samlesbury witches]
• [Dark Age Britain's War With Witchcraft | A Century Of Murder | Timeline]
• [The Pendle Witches | Samlesbury Hall | Lancashire Witches | Pendle Hill] (Dramatization)
1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• [Wikipedia: Salem witch trials]
• [What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac]
• [alem Witch Trial Full Documentary The Geographic Channel]
1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1745 – Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Blue Licks]
• [Blue Licks Battle]
• [Blue Licks Battle]
1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Wikipedia: USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere]
• [USS Constitution Museum]
1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
• [Wikipedia: First Sioux War]
• [Sioux Wars | 3 Minute History]
• [History of the Indian Wars | Full Documentary]
1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 – American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1909 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. Wilfred Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
1920 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• [Wikipedia: Soap Box Derby]
• [Official website]
• [Newsreel of the 1936 Derby]
1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer by a vote of 89.93% for and 10.07% against.
• [Wikipedia: 1934 German referendum]
• [German Referendum - 1934 | Today In History]
• [Why Did The German People Choose Hitler? | Hitler's Propaganda Machine | Timeline]
1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.
1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
• [Dieppe Raid]
• [The Dieppe Raid | Narrated by Alex Trebek]
• [Dieppe 1942 - Slaughter on the Shingle]
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• [Wikipedia: Hurricane Diane]
• [Hurricane Diane Flood of 1955 - PHMC Author Presentation]
• [Hurricane Diane (Scranton, PA): WGBI-TV Footage Can 23] (Silent Film)
1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Francis Gary Powers]
• [What Really Happened when Gary Powers was Shot Down] (Vintage Space)
• [Newsreel of Trial]
• [Gary Powers' U-2 is Shot Down Over the Soviet Union - Animated]
1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
• [Wikipedia: Korabl-Sputnik 2]
• [Italian newsreel about Belka and Strelka (Sputnik 5 - Korabl-Sputnik 2)] (subtitles available)
• [Belka and Strelka – the Soviet space dogs]
1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
• [NASA Page for Satellite]
• [Wikipedia]
• [Gunter's Space Page]
1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1978 – In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• [Wikipedia: Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]
• [1981 Gulf of Sidra incident radio records [F-14 vs Su-22]]
• [WAVY Archive: 1981 USS Nimitz - Libyan Air Craft Incident]
1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
• [Wikipedia: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt]
• [The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR - August Coup of 1991 (Short Animated Documentary)]
• [The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup — ABC News (1991)]
• [Wikipedia: Dissolution of the Soviet Union]
1991 – Crown Heights riot begins.
1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
• [Wikipedia: Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break]
• ['Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands Of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm]
• [Washinton State Dept of Natural Resources]
• [Frankenfish A Farmed Atlantic Salmon Story by Annie Crawley]
2020 Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, August 187, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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