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Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain across the region through the middle of the week and maintain hot and humid conditions. A more unsettled weather pattern develops Thursday with showers and thunderstorms returning to the area through the weekend and early next week as a cold front approaches our area then stalls out.
There was a candidate forum at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Center for those running for Chairman of the Macon County Board of Education. Here is a speech given by Mo Green, a candidate for State Superintendent. Below is the updated color version of his speech.
Mo Green at the Board of Education Forum in Franklin, NC (08-25-2024) | Macon Media
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 90s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 90s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 90s. The chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph decreasing to calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. The chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s. The chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the 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 Tue Aug 27 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Central Tropical Atlantic:
An area of low pressure could form in the central portion of the Tropical Atlantic in a few days. Thereafter, environmental conditions appear generally favorable for some slow development of this system by this weekend into early next week as it moves westward to west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
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Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.2 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (9.3 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 93°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1998
Lowest Temperature 42°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 1.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1995
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 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 27th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Salisbury, Rowan County in 1943
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.17 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County County in 2008
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)
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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
News 13 legends reminisce about WLOS, McCormick Field | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Limit how much information you share in back to school photos | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Rosman community unites for fundraiser after tragic deaths of 2 high school juniors [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC governor’s race: Latest poll shows Josh Stein’s growing lead over Mark Robinson [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Powering Appalachia's energy transition: EPA grants 'Green Bank' $500M [BPR News]
---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.2 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (9.3 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 93°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1998
Lowest Temperature 42°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 1.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1995
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 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 27th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Salisbury, Rowan County in 1943
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.17 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County County in 2008
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)
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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
News 13 legends reminisce about WLOS, McCormick Field | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
Limit how much information you share in back to school photos | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Rosman community unites for fundraiser after tragic deaths of 2 high school juniors [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC governor’s race: Latest poll shows Josh Stein’s growing lead over Mark Robinson [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Powering Appalachia's energy transition: EPA grants 'Green Bank' $500M [BPR News]
---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles
A look at the emerging and dangerous drug 'pink cocaine' | NBC News
North Texas women recall harrowing rescue from flooded Arizona canyon | NBCDFW
• Gilbert woman swept away in Havasupai flash flood found dead; area indefinitely closed [AZ Central]
• US national parks are receiving record-high gift of $100M [AP News]
• Dow climbs to record peak as ‘good is good again’ for stock market [Market Watch]
• Ukraine to present Biden admin with targets it could hit in Russia, given the chance [Politico]
• DOJ charges Hungarian man with conspiring to smuggle 200 military-grade radios to Russia [Courthouse News Service]
• LA to pay more than $38M for failing to make affordable housing accessible [ABC News]
• Iconic Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $24 million [CNN]
• Zuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content [Politico (via Yahoo News)]
• Judge in Texas orders pause on Biden program that offers legal status to spouses of US citizens [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Trump slams Harris, Biden for Afghanistan withdrawal while honoring fallen soldiers | ABC News
Why the Harris campaign saying it raised $540 million since launching matters | CBS News
• Trump threatens to pull out of Harris debate over 'hot mics' disagreement [France 24]
• More than 200 former Bush, McCain and Romney staffers endorse Harris [CBS Newsx]
• Harris campaign slams Trump agenda as a 'deficit bomb,' seeking to flip the script on fiscal responsibility [NBC Newsx]
• Trump golf course set to host Jan. 6 'Awards Gala' fundraiser for Capitol riot defendants [USA TODAY (via Yahoo News)]
• How Trump was ‘orange-pilled’ by three bitcoiners in Puerto Rico and the promise of $100 million [CNBC]
• Walz’s exit from Minnesota National Guard left openings for critics to pounce on his military record [AP News]
International News Headlines
Will Russia's latest attack on Ukraine shift the war's momentum? | The Take | Al Jazeera
Putin’s warlords and oligarchs threaten coup as Ruble craters | Diane Francis| Times Radio
Telegram founder arrested in Paris amid content concerns: Tech titans beware? | FRANCE 24 English
• Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested over probe into cybercrime on app, French prosecutors say [France 24]
• Massive Russian strikes hit Ukraine for second day [BBC News]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 26, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Japan condemns Chinese aircraft violation of its airspace [DW News]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: UN halts aid as Israeli tanks near Deir el-Balah [Al Jazeera]
• IDF strikes terrorist operation room in West Bank, artillery fire reported in Lebanon [Jerusalem Post]
• ‘Brahmin genes’: What's the controversy that divided social media? [HIndustan Times]
• Pentagon spokesman calls N. Korea 'complicit' in Russia's invasion of Ukraine [Yonhap News Agency]
What The Ship (Ep107) | Canada Rail Lockout | Yacht Bayesian | Red Sea | Gaza | Icebreakers & MSC | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-26-24): Donald Trump vows firings for Afghan bombing 'humiliation' 3 year ago | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 26, 2024 | Deadly ice cave collapse in Iceland sparks concerns about tourism
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 26, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 26 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 26, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 26, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Dark Oxygen And A Spooky New Solution to the Fermi Paradox | John Michael Godier
The Level1 Show August 27 2024: Digital Deadbeat | Level1 Techs
What's Going on With Telegram? - DTNS 4841 | 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]
Immune 83: Immune cells eating other cells | MicrobeTV
We've Detected Ghost Particles on Earth - What this means for science | Astrum
The Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will | Joe Scott
LibreSDR / ZynqSDR Software Defined Radio - 70 MHz to 6 GHz | Tech Minds
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On This Day
August 27th is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 126 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)
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
• [Wikipedia: Sack of Rome (410)]
• [Wikipedia: Fall of the Western Roman Empire]
• [Alaric's Sack of Rome - Rise of the Goths]
• [Fall of the Western Roman Empire]
• [Fall of Rome (Visigoth Invasion)]
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1557 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy.
1593 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
• [Treaty of Nerchinsk]
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
• [Battle of Long Island]
• [Liberty - Battle of Long Island]
• [Battle of Long Island (American Revolution 1776)]
• [The Battle of Brooklyn (Long Island): The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes]
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• [Black Hawk War]
• [Black Hawk (Sauk leader)]
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• [The Georgia Hurricane of 1881]
1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
• [1883 eruption of Krakatoa]
• [27th August 1883: The eruption of Krakatoa]
• [Krakatoa - The Great Volcanic Eruption]
• [Krakatoa: Devastating Explosion | How the Earth Was Made (S1, E3)]
• [Krakatoa: The First Disaster of the Modern Era]
• [Krakatoa: The Last Days]
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Zanzibar War]
• [Anglo-Zanzibar War | 3 Minute History]
• [Why the Shortest War in History Lasted 38 Minutes]
1914 – World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
1915 – Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
1916 – World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• [Battle of Ambos Nogales]
• [Battle of Ambos Nogales led to the first fence separating Mexico and U.S.]
• [Ambos Nogales - World War I In North America?]
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• [Kellogg–Briand Pact]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World]
1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.
1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1943 – World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1963 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 11⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide.
1985 – Nigeria's military government is overthrown by another clique of army officers.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2009 – Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Why the Harris campaign saying it raised $540 million since launching matters | CBS News
• Trump threatens to pull out of Harris debate over 'hot mics' disagreement [France 24]
• More than 200 former Bush, McCain and Romney staffers endorse Harris [CBS Newsx]
• Harris campaign slams Trump agenda as a 'deficit bomb,' seeking to flip the script on fiscal responsibility [NBC Newsx]
• Trump golf course set to host Jan. 6 'Awards Gala' fundraiser for Capitol riot defendants [USA TODAY (via Yahoo News)]
• How Trump was ‘orange-pilled’ by three bitcoiners in Puerto Rico and the promise of $100 million [CNBC]
• Walz’s exit from Minnesota National Guard left openings for critics to pounce on his military record [AP News]
International News Headlines
Will Russia's latest attack on Ukraine shift the war's momentum? | The Take | Al Jazeera
Putin’s warlords and oligarchs threaten coup as Ruble craters | Diane Francis| Times Radio
Telegram founder arrested in Paris amid content concerns: Tech titans beware? | FRANCE 24 English
• Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested over probe into cybercrime on app, French prosecutors say [France 24]
• Massive Russian strikes hit Ukraine for second day [BBC News]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 26, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Japan condemns Chinese aircraft violation of its airspace [DW News]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: UN halts aid as Israeli tanks near Deir el-Balah [Al Jazeera]
• IDF strikes terrorist operation room in West Bank, artillery fire reported in Lebanon [Jerusalem Post]
• ‘Brahmin genes’: What's the controversy that divided social media? [HIndustan Times]
• Pentagon spokesman calls N. Korea 'complicit' in Russia's invasion of Ukraine [Yonhap News Agency]
What The Ship (Ep107) | Canada Rail Lockout | Yacht Bayesian | Red Sea | Gaza | Icebreakers & MSC | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-26-24): Donald Trump vows firings for Afghan bombing 'humiliation' 3 year ago | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 26, 2024 | Deadly ice cave collapse in Iceland sparks concerns about tourism
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 26, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 26 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 26, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 26, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Dark Oxygen And A Spooky New Solution to the Fermi Paradox | John Michael Godier
The Level1 Show August 27 2024: Digital Deadbeat | Level1 Techs
What's Going on With Telegram? - DTNS 4841 | 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]
Immune 83: Immune cells eating other cells | MicrobeTV
We've Detected Ghost Particles on Earth - What this means for science | Astrum
The Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will | Joe Scott
LibreSDR / ZynqSDR Software Defined Radio - 70 MHz to 6 GHz | Tech Minds
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On This Day
August 27th is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 126 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)
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
• [Wikipedia: Sack of Rome (410)]
• [Wikipedia: Fall of the Western Roman Empire]
• [Alaric's Sack of Rome - Rise of the Goths]
• [Fall of the Western Roman Empire]
• [Fall of Rome (Visigoth Invasion)]
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1557 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy.
1593 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
• [Treaty of Nerchinsk]
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
• [Battle of Long Island]
• [Liberty - Battle of Long Island]
• [Battle of Long Island (American Revolution 1776)]
• [The Battle of Brooklyn (Long Island): The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes]
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• [Black Hawk War]
• [Black Hawk (Sauk leader)]
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• [The Georgia Hurricane of 1881]
1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
• [1883 eruption of Krakatoa]
• [27th August 1883: The eruption of Krakatoa]
• [Krakatoa - The Great Volcanic Eruption]
• [Krakatoa: Devastating Explosion | How the Earth Was Made (S1, E3)]
• [Krakatoa: The First Disaster of the Modern Era]
• [Krakatoa: The Last Days]
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Zanzibar War]
• [Anglo-Zanzibar War | 3 Minute History]
• [Why the Shortest War in History Lasted 38 Minutes]
1914 – World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
1915 – Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
1916 – World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• [Battle of Ambos Nogales]
• [Battle of Ambos Nogales led to the first fence separating Mexico and U.S.]
• [Ambos Nogales - World War I In North America?]
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• [Kellogg–Briand Pact]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World]
1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.
1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1943 – World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1963 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 11⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide.
1985 – Nigeria's military government is overthrown by another clique of army officers.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2009 – Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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