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National News
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure maintains a cool northeast breeze through today, keeping temperatures below normal. A cold front arrives from the northwest by Saturday with dry and mild weather into next week as high pressure is expected to remain in control through the end of the week.
• 11th Annual Night of Hope - An International Overdose Awareness Day event [Facebook Event Page]
Join Smoky Mountain Harm Reduction for our 11th Annual Night of Hope in remembrance of all the loved ones we have lost to an overdose.
Again this year, we have partnered with Truth Pharm to bring their Trail of Truth to NC! The Trail of Truth is an annual artful memorial event for lives lost to substance use related causes.
Location: The Gazebo on the Square, corner of Iotla and West Main Street, Downtown Franklin, NC
3-5pm Set up tombstones and event tables
5-6pm Food & Refreshments; Remembrance Art Activities
6-8pm Speakers, Art Installation, Luminaries
8-9pm Candlelight Vigil & Speaking Names
If you want a stone made for your family member, send in your loved ones name to be memorialized: www.trailoftruth.org/submit
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 509.
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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 Sep 6 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (AL90):
Shower and thunderstorm activity has diminished tonight in association with a broad area of low pressure and a nearby weak front over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Upper-level winds are expected to remain unfavorable for significant development of this system while it meanders over the northwestern Gulf and eventually merges with an approaching frontal system later today or on Saturday. Although tropical cyclone development is unlikely, heavy rainfall is expected to continue across portions of the northern Gulf Coast during the next day or so. Additional information on this system can be found in products issued by your local National Weather Service Forecast Office and High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent.
2. Northwestern Atlantic (AL99):
Showers and thunderstorms have changed little in organization with a gale-force, non-tropical area of low pressure centered a few hundred miles east of North Carolina, and recent satellite wind data indicate a front extends into the low. This system could briefly acquire some subtropical characteristics over the next day or so while it moves generally north-northeastward, remaining offshore of the northeastern United States. The low is expected to move over cooler waters by early Saturday, and thereafter further development is not expected. Additional information on this system, including gale warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...30 percent.
3. Northwestern Caribbean Sea and Southwestern Gulf of Mexico:
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the northwestern Caribbean Sea are associated with a tropical wave. Development is not expected before the system reaches Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula later today. Some slow development is possible later this weekend after the system emerges over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
4. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
An elongated trough of low pressure over the eastern tropical Atlantic is producing minimal shower and thunderstorm activity. Development, if any, should be slow to occur during the early part of next week while the disturbance moves slowly northwestward or northward over the eastern tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent.
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Record Weather Events for September 6th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1954
Lowest Temperature 38°F in in Highlands in 1997
Greatest Rainfall 4.59 inches in Highlands in 1949
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for September
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 98°F in Frsnklin on 09-04-1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on 09-30-1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on09-29-1964
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for September 6th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Louisburg, Franklin County in 1954
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1924
Greatest One-Day Rain 8.60 inches in Clinton, Sampson County in 2019
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for September Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 108°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 09-25-1921
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Marion, McDowell County on 09-28-2000
Greatest Rainfall 21.00 inches in Wilmington, New Hanover County on 09-17-2018
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)
September 2024 Schedule
9-7-24—The Shifty Sisters—From heartfelt to irreverent, these ladies offer up all types of music to the crowd. You’ll hear covers and originals both. It’s been a while, but we’re glad to have the trio back to The Frog. Blues, ballads & more.
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
Emergency tech used during Georgia school shooting also used in Chicago area schools | WBBM-TV (Chicago, IL)
Father of alleged Georgia high school shooter arrested | WCBS-TV (New York City, NY)
• First court appearance set for Georgia teen accused of killing 4 at his high school [AP News]
• Father of suspected Apalachee High School shooter charged in murders; FBI received warnings in 2023 [Yahoo News]
• Hunter Biden pleads guilty to federal tax-dodging charges at start of trial [Courthouse News Serice]
• Police deny Venezuela gang has taken over rundown apartment complex in Denver suburb [NBC News]
• Court denies Oklahoma request to reinstate federal funds in dispute over abortion referrals [SCOTUSblog]
• Deep divisions in battleground Pennsylvania over proposed sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese company [CNBCx]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
He Predicted Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Now… | NYT Opinion
Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
Walz appears at campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania | PBS NewsHour
• That photo of people wearing ‘Nebraska Walz’s for Trump’ shirts? They’re distant cousins [AP News]
• ‘It’s disastrous’: White evangelicals waver after Trump’s shifts on abortion [Politico (via Yahoo News)]
• Trump prosecutor Fani Willis fights subpoena from GOP-run state Senate committee [Courthouse News Service]
• Harris preparing for upcoming Trump debate in battleground Pennsylvania [ABC News]
• Trump turning to campaign events, talking to voters to prepare for Harris debate [ABC News]
• (video) Trump says he would appoint Elon Musk to head government efficiency commission [NBC News]
International News Headlines
Putin delivers keynote speech at Eastern Economic Forum | The Times and Sunday Times
How AI helps predict extreme weather | BBC News
• The world just sweltered through its hottest summer on record for the second year running [CNBC]
US accuses Russia of 2024 election interference | BBC News
• Middle East updates: Blinken says cease-fire '90% agreed' [DW News]
• 🔴 Liveblog: UK to send Ukraine hundreds of new missile systems to boost air defence [France 24]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 5, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Hamas publishes video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: Aid situation ‘catastrophic’ for Palestinians [Al Jazeera]
• First shipment of Mpox vaccine arrives in Kinshasa, DRC [Africa News]
What The Ship (Ep108) | Maritime Supply Chain | Red Sea | Reliability Drops | Shipbuilding | Updates | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (9-5-24): Elon Musk to join Trump Admin; Hunter Biden pleads guilty to tax charges | C-SPAN
Global National: Sept. 5, 2024 | NDP vague on supporting early election after ending Liberal support
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Sept. 4, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | September 4, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 5, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Sept. 5, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Atomic Clock Breakthrough Could Lead To Quantum Twin Paradox Experiment | Antov Petrov
The Level1 Show September 6 2024: Empty Starliner Syndrome | Level1 Techs
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• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 30 to September 6: See Mercury at its best [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 30 – September 8 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Sky & Telescope's Sky Tour Podcast – September 2024 | The Equinox and the Summer Triangle
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense | Sabine Hossenfielder
White Dwarfs and Red Giants as Habitable Stars | John Michael Godier
This Week in Bitcoin #25: Bitcoin's Bad Rap - The Scam Connection Exposed | Jupiter Broadcasting
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On This Day
September 6th is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 116 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)
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
• [Battle of the Frigidus]
• [Battle of Frigidus 394 - End of the Pagan Rome]
• [Weapons and Warfare: Battle of the Frigidus]
617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
1100 – Election of Antipope Theodoric.
1198 – Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of Germany (King of the Romans)
1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king BolesÅ‚aw II.
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by BolesÅ‚aw the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1276 – Pope John XXI is elected Pope.
1331 – Stefan DuÅ¡an declares himself king of Serbia.
1380 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1514 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1522 – Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.
1565 РSt. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Men̩ndez de Avil̩s.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.[1]
1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1760 – French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the British, completing the latter's conquest of New France.
1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.
1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1831 – November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
1855 – Crimean War: The French assault the tower of Malakoff, leading to the capture of Sevastopol.
1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
1862 – Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
1863 – American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1888 – Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
1888 – The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of FortÃn Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.
1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
1888 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1905 – The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
1925 – Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1933 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1941 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1943 – World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the Italian forces.
1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1945 – The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1946 – The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
1970 – Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1973 – World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.
1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
1978 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
1986 – Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, is indicted on charges of espionage by the Soviet Union.
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
1989 – Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 – Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2016 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit 101955 Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.
2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, September 06, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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• Trump prosecutor Fani Willis fights subpoena from GOP-run state Senate committee [Courthouse News Service]
• Harris preparing for upcoming Trump debate in battleground Pennsylvania [ABC News]
• Trump turning to campaign events, talking to voters to prepare for Harris debate [ABC News]
• (video) Trump says he would appoint Elon Musk to head government efficiency commission [NBC News]
International News Headlines
Putin delivers keynote speech at Eastern Economic Forum | The Times and Sunday Times
How AI helps predict extreme weather | BBC News
• The world just sweltered through its hottest summer on record for the second year running [CNBC]
US accuses Russia of 2024 election interference | BBC News
• Middle East updates: Blinken says cease-fire '90% agreed' [DW News]
• 🔴 Liveblog: UK to send Ukraine hundreds of new missile systems to boost air defence [France 24]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 5, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Hamas publishes video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: Aid situation ‘catastrophic’ for Palestinians [Al Jazeera]
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Global National: Sept. 5, 2024 | NDP vague on supporting early election after ending Liberal support
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Sept. 4, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | September 4, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 5, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Sept. 5, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Atomic Clock Breakthrough Could Lead To Quantum Twin Paradox Experiment | Antov Petrov
The Level1 Show September 6 2024: Empty Starliner Syndrome | Level1 Techs
All About Android 15 - DTNS 4848 | 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 30 to September 6: See Mercury at its best [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 30 – September 8 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Sky & Telescope's Sky Tour Podcast – September 2024 | The Equinox and the Summer Triangle
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense | Sabine Hossenfielder
White Dwarfs and Red Giants as Habitable Stars | John Michael Godier
This Week in Bitcoin #25: Bitcoin's Bad Rap - The Scam Connection Exposed | Jupiter Broadcasting
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On This Day
September 6th is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 116 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)
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
• [Battle of the Frigidus]
• [Battle of Frigidus 394 - End of the Pagan Rome]
• [Weapons and Warfare: Battle of the Frigidus]
617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
1100 – Election of Antipope Theodoric.
1198 – Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of Germany (King of the Romans)
1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king BolesÅ‚aw II.
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by BolesÅ‚aw the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1276 – Pope John XXI is elected Pope.
1331 – Stefan DuÅ¡an declares himself king of Serbia.
1380 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1514 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1522 – Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.
1565 РSt. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Men̩ndez de Avil̩s.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.[1]
1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1760 – French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the British, completing the latter's conquest of New France.
1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.
1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1831 – November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
1855 – Crimean War: The French assault the tower of Malakoff, leading to the capture of Sevastopol.
1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
1862 – Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
1863 – American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1888 – Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
1888 – The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of FortÃn Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.
1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
1888 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1905 – The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
1925 – Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1933 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1941 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1943 – World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the Italian forces.
1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1945 – The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1946 – The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
1970 – Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1973 – World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.
1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
1978 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
1986 – Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, is indicted on charges of espionage by the Soviet Union.
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
1989 – Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 – Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2016 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit 101955 Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.
2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, September 06, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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