Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A nearly stationary front will meander across our region for the next several days providing a focus for above-normal chances of mainly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures will be near normal or just a bit cooler than normal.
• Extreme, severe drought expands in parts of North Carolina [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Isolated showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 4pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then isolated showers. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 8pm and 11pm. Lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Highs in the lower 80s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then showers and thunderstorms are likely between 9pm and 11pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Isolated showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 5pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then isolated showers. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds. The chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Highs in the mid 70s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 60s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Isolated showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 5pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs near 80. Light winds out of the southwest. The chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Highs near 80. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 10pm, then showers and thunderstorms are likely, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Lows in the upper 60s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Isolated showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 2pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest. The chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
Showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Highs in the mid 70s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 60s. The chance of rain is 80%.
Hazards
Scattered to numerous thunderstorms are expected to develop across the area this afternoon and evening. The main threats will be from frequent cloud to ground lightning and torrential rainfall. However, a few storms could briefly become strong and produce isolated gusty winds. In addition, excessive rainfall could occur in isolated locations, resulting in flash flooding of streams and urban areas.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jul 22 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (2.9 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (1.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for July 22nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1952
Lowest Temperature 46°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1947
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.24 inches in Highlands in 1979
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for July 22nd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 107°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County in 1932
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1909
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of July Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 109°F in Albemarle, Stanly County on 07-28-1940
Lowest Temperature 32°F in Celo, Yancey County on 07-10-1961
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands, Macon County on 07-29-1879
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
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Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
July 2024 Schedule
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News Briefing
---NATIONAL---
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Special Report: Examining the 2024 election as Biden exits the race | NBC News
Biden drops reelection bid, upending 2024 race | CBS News
What led to Biden dropping out of presidential race, endorsing Kamala Harris | CBS News
Trump responds to Biden dropping out of presidential election | ABC News
Biden backs VP Harris after dropping out of presidential race | DW News
Timeline: The end of Biden's 2024 presidential campaign | ABC News
• How the Bet on an 81-Year-Old Joe Biden Turned Into an Epic Miscalculation [Wall Street Journal]
• President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race [NBC News]
• Joe Biden drops out of the race and endorses Kamala Harris [Politico]
• Democrats hail Biden’s decision to not seek reelection as selfless. Republicans urge him to resign [AP News]
• Barack Obama Statement on Biden Leaving 2024 Race [Medium]
• Inside the Trump Campaign’s Hidden Ground Game Republican nominee’s get-out-the-vote effort has been shrouded in secrecy [Wall Street Journal]
• FAQ: Biden is dropping out of the 2024 race. How will Democrats pick a new presidential nominee? [Yahoo News]
• 'We love Hitler. We love Trump.' As Trump rallied in GR, white supremacists chanted in Howell [Livingston Daily]
International News Headlines
Spain set for protests over tourism | BBC News
Global leaders react to Biden‘s announcement to step back from presidential race | DW News
Bangladesh court scraps job quotas after deadly unrest | BBC News
IDF launches airstrikes inside Yemen | ABC News
• Evan Gershkovich: American journalist sentenced to 16 years in Russian prison after spying trial [Sky News]
• European Gas Falls to Lowest in a Week as Freeport LNG Restarts [Bloomberg]
• US election 2024 liveblog: Key Democrats back Kamala Harris as Biden drops out [Al Jazeera]
• Liveblog - Biden drops out of presidential race: Everything you need to know [Jerusalem Post]
• Research body from EU and NATO nation joins China-led ILRS moon project [South China Morning Post]
• Presidential office says S. Korea-U.S. alliance has 'bipartisan' support [Yonhap News Agency]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• Biden ‘mentally unfit’ to have nuclear codes – top Republican [Russia Today]
• US journalist Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years for espionage Evan Gershkovich's only hope now is Donald Trump's election victory [Pravda]
• West preparing for direct military conflict with Russia — Vucic [TASS: Russian News Agency]
Global National: July 21, 2024 | What’s next for Democrats after Biden drops out of election?
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 21, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | July 21, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 21, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 21, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Woah! Scientists Created Tiny Machines Driven By Microbes | Antov Petrov
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 12 to 19: An occultation in Virgo [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 12 – 21 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Meade and Orion Cease Operations — Maybe [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Live Links With Friends July 15 2024 - Hardware, AI, Gov, Biz, You Name IT | Level1 Techs
Andrew Jackson & The 8 Year Reign of Terror Documentary | The People Profiles s
Blender Woes and Keyboard Pros | Linux Out Loud 93
• Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS [tom's Hardware]
• CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft / The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error. [The verge]
• Malicious actors trying to exploit global tech outage for their own gain [AP News]
• Netflix ends its cheapest ad-free subscription [NPR]
• Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search [Torrent Freak]
• A 12-year-old girl is accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin over an iPhone [ABC News]
On This Day
July 22nd is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 162 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)
811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Pliska]
• [Wikipedia: First Bulgarian Empire]
• [Micahistory 2: The Battle of Pliska]
• [Kings and Generals: Pliska 811 - Byzantine - Bulgarian Wars]
1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Chios (1319)]
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1813 – Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1881 – The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1968 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2010 – English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
2012 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
2016 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
2018 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180. Back to Top
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, July 221, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Biden drops reelection bid, upending 2024 race | CBS News
What led to Biden dropping out of presidential race, endorsing Kamala Harris | CBS News
Trump responds to Biden dropping out of presidential election | ABC News
Biden backs VP Harris after dropping out of presidential race | DW News
Timeline: The end of Biden's 2024 presidential campaign | ABC News
• How the Bet on an 81-Year-Old Joe Biden Turned Into an Epic Miscalculation [Wall Street Journal]
• President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race [NBC News]
• Joe Biden drops out of the race and endorses Kamala Harris [Politico]
• Democrats hail Biden’s decision to not seek reelection as selfless. Republicans urge him to resign [AP News]
• Barack Obama Statement on Biden Leaving 2024 Race [Medium]
• Inside the Trump Campaign’s Hidden Ground Game Republican nominee’s get-out-the-vote effort has been shrouded in secrecy [Wall Street Journal]
• FAQ: Biden is dropping out of the 2024 race. How will Democrats pick a new presidential nominee? [Yahoo News]
• 'We love Hitler. We love Trump.' As Trump rallied in GR, white supremacists chanted in Howell [Livingston Daily]
International News Headlines
Spain set for protests over tourism | BBC News
Global leaders react to Biden‘s announcement to step back from presidential race | DW News
Bangladesh court scraps job quotas after deadly unrest | BBC News
IDF launches airstrikes inside Yemen | ABC News
• Evan Gershkovich: American journalist sentenced to 16 years in Russian prison after spying trial [Sky News]
• European Gas Falls to Lowest in a Week as Freeport LNG Restarts [Bloomberg]
• US election 2024 liveblog: Key Democrats back Kamala Harris as Biden drops out [Al Jazeera]
• Liveblog - Biden drops out of presidential race: Everything you need to know [Jerusalem Post]
• Research body from EU and NATO nation joins China-led ILRS moon project [South China Morning Post]
• Presidential office says S. Korea-U.S. alliance has 'bipartisan' support [Yonhap News Agency]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• Biden ‘mentally unfit’ to have nuclear codes – top Republican [Russia Today]
• US journalist Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years for espionage Evan Gershkovich's only hope now is Donald Trump's election victory [Pravda]
• West preparing for direct military conflict with Russia — Vucic [TASS: Russian News Agency]
Global National: July 21, 2024 | What’s next for Democrats after Biden drops out of election?
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - July 21, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | July 21, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 21, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (July 21, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Woah! Scientists Created Tiny Machines Driven By Microbes | Antov Petrov
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from July 12 to 19: An occultation in Virgo [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 12 – 21 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Meade and Orion Cease Operations — Maybe [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Live Links With Friends July 15 2024 - Hardware, AI, Gov, Biz, You Name IT | Level1 Techs
Andrew Jackson & The 8 Year Reign of Terror Documentary | The People Profiles s
Blender Woes and Keyboard Pros | Linux Out Loud 93
• Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS [tom's Hardware]
• CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft / The global IT outage on Friday resulted from a sensor configuration update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform that caused a Windows logic error. [The verge]
• Malicious actors trying to exploit global tech outage for their own gain [AP News]
• Netflix ends its cheapest ad-free subscription [NPR]
• Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search [Torrent Freak]
• A 12-year-old girl is accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin over an iPhone [ABC News]
On This Day
July 22nd is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 162 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)
811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Pliska]
• [Wikipedia: First Bulgarian Empire]
• [Micahistory 2: The Battle of Pliska]
• [Kings and Generals: Pliska 811 - Byzantine - Bulgarian Wars]
1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Chios (1319)]
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1813 – Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1881 – The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1968 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2010 – English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
2012 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
2016 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
2018 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180. Back to Top
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, July 221, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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