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National News
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Surface high pressure will remain over the region through the first half of next week while continuing the dry weather. Our cooler than normal temperatures will change over the weekend as an upper ridge builds in from the west with a warming trend which will continue into early next week when it becomes hot again. Moisture begins to increase by next Thursday.
Come Skate Day at the Franklin Skatepark at the Whitmire Property
There will be an event at the new Skatepark this Saturday morning August 24 from 10am to 2pm.
Skateboards and helmets will be given FREE to all the children that attend as long as supplies last.
Board of Education Forum at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Centery
Event: Board of Education Candidate Forum
Date: Sunday, August 25
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Place: Franklin Fine Arts Center, Franklin High School
Organizers: Young Progressive Voters Group of Macon County
Our group is hosting a multipartisan candidate forum for the three Macon County Board of Education candidates to have an opportunity to present their views to the voters of Macon County. The group's idea is to attract more young voters to the polls by making it a more casual, fun event. The format is similar to the game show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" We will have two panels, one of BOE candidates and one of teachers as contestants. We prepared trivia questions and campaign questions in advance and have sent them to the candidates to give them time to prepare for the event. Democratic Candidate for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mo Green will be the emcee for the first half of the event.
We think this would be a fun, innovative way to get the people of Macon County together to support our local school board candidates. Sunday, August 25th from 6 - 7 pm.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph early in the morning decreasing to calm winds by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Tropical Update
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri Aug 23 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
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-high range (8.6 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2023)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1969
Greatest Rainfall 4.02 inches in Highlands in 1967
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for 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 23rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.59 inches in Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County in 1967
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for August
Data available from 1872
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)
Come Skate Day at the Franklin Skatepark at the Whitmire Property
There will be an event at the new Skatepark this Saturday morning August 24 from 10am to 2pm.
Skateboards and helmets will be given FREE to all the children that attend as long as supplies last.
Board of Education Forum at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Center
Event: Board of Education Candidate Forum
Date: Sunday, August 25
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Place: Franklin Fine Arts Center, Franklin High School
Organizers: Young Progressive Voters Group of Macon County
Our group is hosting a multipartisan candidate forum for the three Macon County Board of Education candidates to have an opportunity to present their views to the voters of Macon County. The group's idea is to attract more young voters to the polls by making it a more casual, fun event. The format is similar to the game show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" We will have two panels, one of BOE candidates and one of teachers as contestants. We prepared trivia questions and campaign questions in advance and have sent them to the candidates to give them time to prepare for the event. Democratic Candidate for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mo Green will be the emcee for the first half of the event.
We think this would be a fun, innovative way to get the people of Macon County together to support our local school board candidates. Sunday, August 25th from 6 - 7 pm.
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.
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
---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.6 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2023)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1969
Greatest Rainfall 4.02 inches in Highlands in 1967
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for 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 23rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.59 inches in Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County in 1967
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for August
Data available from 1872
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)
Come Skate Day at the Franklin Skatepark at the Whitmire Property
There will be an event at the new Skatepark this Saturday morning August 24 from 10am to 2pm.
Skateboards and helmets will be given FREE to all the children that attend as long as supplies last.
Board of Education Forum at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Center
Event: Board of Education Candidate Forum
Date: Sunday, August 25
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Place: Franklin Fine Arts Center, Franklin High School
Organizers: Young Progressive Voters Group of Macon County
Our group is hosting a multipartisan candidate forum for the three Macon County Board of Education candidates to have an opportunity to present their views to the voters of Macon County. The group's idea is to attract more young voters to the polls by making it a more casual, fun event. The format is similar to the game show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" We will have two panels, one of BOE candidates and one of teachers as contestants. We prepared trivia questions and campaign questions in advance and have sent them to the candidates to give them time to prepare for the event. Democratic Candidate for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mo Green will be the emcee for the first half of the event.
We think this would be a fun, innovative way to get the people of Macon County together to support our local school board candidates. Sunday, August 25th from 6 - 7 pm.
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.
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
---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles
Trump visits US-Mexico border, slams Harris on immigration during rally | ABC News
Man in custody in connection with alleged social media threat to kill Trump: Sources | ABC News
• Gov. Abbott sent zero migrant buses from Texas to blue cities in July [https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/abbott-sent-no-migrant-buses-texas-north-july-rcna167746]
• FDA approves the new Covid vaccine. Here's the best time to get it. [NBC News]
• Supreme Court reinstates Arizona proof-of-citizenship requirement for 2024 state ballots [Courthouse News Service]
• Federal judge tosses Kansas machine gun possession case on Second Amendment grounds [Kansas City Star]
• DHS watchdog warns of 'urgent issue' after immigration officials allegedly lose track of unaccompanied children [ABC News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Democratic National Convention (Day 4) | C-SPAN
Kamala Harris Acceptance Speech | C-SPAN
Gov. Tim Walz Full VP Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention | 2024 DNC Night 4 | PBS NewsHour
Gabby Giffords Addresses the Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
• Harris summons Americans to reject political divisions, warns of consequences posed by a Trump win [AP News]
• RFK Jr. withdraws from Arizona ballot as questions swirl around a possible alliance with Trump [AP News]
• Ann Coulter posted about Tim Walz's son. The backlash was swift. [Politico]
• Trump visits border wall in Arizona, trades accusations with Democrats on immigration policy [CBS News]
• Roster of Republicans slam Trump at the DNC [ABC News]
• Trump says he will make 'provisions' for mixed-status families but doesn't rule out separations with mass deportations [NBC News]
International News Headlines
Inside the Ukraine-controlled Kursk region in Russia | DW News
World's second-largest diamond found in Botswana | BBC News
• The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana — a whopping 2,492 carats [AP News]
• Brazil sends 1,500 firefighters to combat Amazon forest blazes [The Guardian (UK)]
• Bangladesh floods maroon nearly three million people, kill two [Reuters]
• US government indicts Guatemalan suspect on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer [CNN]
• Taiwan tracks 41 Chinese military aircraft, 7 naval ships [Taiwan News]
• Somalia threatens to suspend Ethiopian Airlines flights amid territorial dispute [Africa News]
Canadian Pacific & Canadian National Railroads Lockout Workers | Snarling The Global Supply Chain | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-22-24): Dem. Pres. nominee Kamala Harris speaks on DNC final night in Chicago | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 22, 2024 | What does binding arbitration mean for Canada's rail shutdown?
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 22, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 22, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 22, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 22, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
JWST has turned the Crisis in Cosmology into a bigger problem | Night Sky News August 2024 | Dr Becky
The Level1 Show August 23 2024: The Lack of Field Trips Will Continue Until Testing Improves | Level1 Techs
Beyond the Post - DTNS 4838 | Daily Tech News Show
• 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]
Anabasis of Xenophon - Greatest Story Ever - Ancient Greek Documentary | Kings and Generals
Higgs Boson Should Have Destroyed The Universe So Why Are We Here? | Anton Petrov
Is Gravity RANDOM Not Quantum? | PBS Space Time
How an Amusement Park Works | Wendover Productions
India's maiden National Space Day Celebrations | ISRO Official
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On This Day
August 23rd is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 130 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)
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.[citation needed]
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
• [Siege of Jerusalem (1244)]
• [The Fall of Jerusalem and the Battle of La Forbie, 1244]
1268 – The Battle of Tagliacozzo marks the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William Wallace]
• [The BRUTAL Execution Of William Wallace - 'Braveheart']
• [The Death and Legacy of William Wallace]
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
• [Siege of Moscow (1382)]
• [List of conflicts in Eastern Europe during Turco-Mongol rule]
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre | Episode 38 | Lineage]
• [Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in History and Memory by Barbara Diefendorf]
1595 – Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Story of Michael the Brave ⚔️ ALL PARTS 1 - 5]
• [Battle of Călugăreni (23 August 1595) - Wallachia vs Ottoman Empire] (dramatizationno subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 1 - Calugareni (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 2 - Unirea (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Gifu Castle]
• [Battle of Gifu Castle]
1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1741 – Eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• [Wikipedia: Proclamation of Rebellion]
• [Text of Proclaimation]
• [Proclamation of Rebellion - John Adams] (Daramatization)
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• [Wikipedia: State of Franklin]
• [Lecture: State of Franklin and Washington to Jefferson]
• [The Lost State of Franklin! - What The History?!]
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1864 – American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• [Wikipedia: Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]
• [A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3]
• [British historian Roger Moorhouse on the impact of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its Secret Protocols]
• [Why Germany and the Soviet Union Became "Allies": the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)]
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Battlefield S1/E4 - The Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 - World War II DOCUMENTARY]
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
• [Freckleton air disaster]
• [The Freckleton Disaster - The Story Behind The Tragedy ]
• [Freckleton Disaster]
1945 – World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1954 – First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• [Wikipedia: Lunar Orbiter 1]
• [Lunar Orbiter 1 Photo Gallery]
• [NASA Film of Program]
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• [Wikipedia: Salad Bowl strike]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [PDF of Article Written at the Time]
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.[4]
1975 – The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands. This is called the Baltic Way or Baltic Chain.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
• [ABC News: 8/23/90: British Hostages in Iraq]
• [Iraq TV Shows Saddam Visiting Hostages; Some Smile, Others Wary]
• [1990: Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage showT]
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
• [CERN: The birth of the Web]
• [W3.ORG: Tim Berners-Lee]
• [InfiniteHistoryProject MIT: Timothy Berners Lee]
• [Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web]
• [Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how he came up with the Internet | Washington Post Live]
• [Father of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee prepares 'do-over']
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
• [2011 Virginia earthquake]
• [East Coast quake: A seismologist explains]
• [Earthquake Begins in Virginia, Rattles East Coast]
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, August 23, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the 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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On This Day
August 23rd is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 130 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)
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.[citation needed]
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
• [Siege of Jerusalem (1244)]
• [The Fall of Jerusalem and the Battle of La Forbie, 1244]
1268 – The Battle of Tagliacozzo marks the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William Wallace]
• [The BRUTAL Execution Of William Wallace - 'Braveheart']
• [The Death and Legacy of William Wallace]
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
• [Siege of Moscow (1382)]
• [List of conflicts in Eastern Europe during Turco-Mongol rule]
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre | Episode 38 | Lineage]
• [Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in History and Memory by Barbara Diefendorf]
1595 – Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
• [St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
• [Story of Michael the Brave ⚔️ ALL PARTS 1 - 5]
• [Battle of Călugăreni (23 August 1595) - Wallachia vs Ottoman Empire] (dramatizationno subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 1 - Calugareni (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
• [Mihai Viteazul - Part 2 - Unirea (1970 / English subtitles / HD)] (Romanian movie w/ English subtitles)
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Gifu Castle]
• [Battle of Gifu Castle]
1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1741 – Eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• [Wikipedia: Proclamation of Rebellion]
• [Text of Proclaimation]
• [Proclamation of Rebellion - John Adams] (Daramatization)
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• [Wikipedia: State of Franklin]
• [Lecture: State of Franklin and Washington to Jefferson]
• [The Lost State of Franklin! - What The History?!]
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1864 – American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• [Wikipedia: Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]
• [A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3]
• [British historian Roger Moorhouse on the impact of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its Secret Protocols]
• [Why Germany and the Soviet Union Became "Allies": the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)]
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Battlefield S1/E4 - The Battle of Stalingrad]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 - World War II DOCUMENTARY]
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
• [Freckleton air disaster]
• [The Freckleton Disaster - The Story Behind The Tragedy ]
• [Freckleton Disaster]
1945 – World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1954 – First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• [Wikipedia: Lunar Orbiter 1]
• [Lunar Orbiter 1 Photo Gallery]
• [NASA Film of Program]
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• [Wikipedia: Salad Bowl strike]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [PDF of Article Written at the Time]
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.[4]
1975 – The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands. This is called the Baltic Way or Baltic Chain.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
• [ABC News: 8/23/90: British Hostages in Iraq]
• [Iraq TV Shows Saddam Visiting Hostages; Some Smile, Others Wary]
• [1990: Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage showT]
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
• [CERN: The birth of the Web]
• [W3.ORG: Tim Berners-Lee]
• [InfiniteHistoryProject MIT: Timothy Berners Lee]
• [Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web]
• [Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how he came up with the Internet | Washington Post Live]
• [Father of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee prepares 'do-over']
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
• [2011 Virginia earthquake]
• [East Coast quake: A seismologist explains]
• [Earthquake Begins in Virginia, Rattles East Coast]
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, August 23, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the 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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