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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.
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.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 90s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the northeast.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny through midmorning, then becoming sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
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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 Sun Aug 25 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 (8.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.9 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 92°F in Franklin in 1975
Lowest Temperature 45°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest Rainfall 2.81 inches in Highlands in 2008
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Concord, Cabarrus County on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 37°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.16 inches in Hendersonville, Henderson County on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 25th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 104°F in Jackson, Northampton County in 2002
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Cullowhee, Jackson County in 1925
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.15 inches in Monroe, Union County in 1908
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of 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)
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
8-31-24---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
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Videos and links to news articles
SpaceX Completing a Boeing Mission: NASA’s Backup Plan, Explained | WSJ
Global National: Aug. 24, 2024 | Labour board orders thousands of rail employees back to work
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 24, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 24, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 24, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 24, 2024)
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On This Day
August 25th is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 128 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)
766 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.
1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1270 – Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade. His uncle, Charles I of Naples, is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.
1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
• [Physics Today: Galileo demonstrates his first telescope]
• [SciHi Blog: Galileo Galilei and his Telescope]
1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1814 – War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.
• [Wikipedia: Burning of Washington]
• [The Burning of Washington: The War of 1812 in Four Minutes]
• [Out of the Ashes: A New Library for Congress and the Nation]
1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• [Wikipedia: Rape of Belgium]
• [The Fire of Leuven (WWI)]
• [How the university of Leuven kept losing its library.]
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power. 1940 – World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
• [Newsreel]
• [Color Newsreel (Silent)]
• [Newsreel US Troop Parade]
1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1950 – To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.[5]
1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vukovar]
• [Battle of Vukovar 1991 (War in Croatia)]
• [BBC: Battle of Vukovar (1991)]
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
• [Wikipedia: History of Linux]
• [Wikipedia: Linux]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Linus Torvalds]
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
2006 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
• [Wikipedia: Hurricane Harvey (2004)]
• [ABC News Livestream]
• [#HOUSTONSTRONG: Remembering Hurricane Harvey]
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, August 25, 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.
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.9 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 92°F in Franklin in 1975
Lowest Temperature 45°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest Rainfall 2.81 inches in Highlands in 2008
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Concord, Cabarrus County on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 37°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.16 inches in Hendersonville, Henderson County on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 25th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 104°F in Jackson, Northampton County in 2002
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Cullowhee, Jackson County in 1925
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.15 inches in Monroe, Union County in 1908
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of 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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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
8-31-24---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
---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles
SpaceX Completing a Boeing Mission: NASA’s Backup Plan, Explained | WSJ
Global National: Aug. 24, 2024 | Labour board orders thousands of rail employees back to work
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 24, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 24, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 24, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 24, 2024)
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On This Day
August 25th is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 128 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)
766 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.
1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1270 – Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade. His uncle, Charles I of Naples, is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.
1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
• [Physics Today: Galileo demonstrates his first telescope]
• [SciHi Blog: Galileo Galilei and his Telescope]
1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1814 – War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.
• [Wikipedia: Burning of Washington]
• [The Burning of Washington: The War of 1812 in Four Minutes]
• [Out of the Ashes: A New Library for Congress and the Nation]
1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• [Wikipedia: Rape of Belgium]
• [The Fire of Leuven (WWI)]
• [How the university of Leuven kept losing its library.]
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power. 1940 – World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
• [Newsreel]
• [Color Newsreel (Silent)]
• [Newsreel US Troop Parade]
1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1950 – To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.[5]
1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vukovar]
• [Battle of Vukovar 1991 (War in Croatia)]
• [BBC: Battle of Vukovar (1991)]
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
• [Wikipedia: History of Linux]
• [Wikipedia: Linux]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Linus Torvalds]
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
2006 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
• [Wikipedia: Hurricane Harvey (2004)]
• [ABC News Livestream]
• [#HOUSTONSTRONG: Remembering Hurricane Harvey]
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Support Macon Media
If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
Or, if you prefer Pay Pal, try PayPal.me/MaconMedia
Published at 5:00am on Sunday, August 25, 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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