6 years in the past right this moment, a bunch of teenage affiliation soccer gamers and their trainer have been efficiently rescued after being caught for over two weeks in Tham Luang Cave, Thailand. Getting into the cave after a apply session, heavy rains later trapped the staff inside. Efforts to find the group have been hampered by rising water ranges and robust currents, and the staff was out of contact with the surface world for greater than per week, throughout which their plight grew right into a worldwide media frenzy. READ how they have been saved… (2018)
The rescue effort concerned as many as 10,000 individuals, together with greater than 100 divers, scores of rescue staff, representatives from about 100 governmental businesses, 900 cops, and a couple of,000 troopers. Ten police helicopters, seven ambulances, and greater than 700 diving cylinders have been deployed to the scene, and the pumping of multiple billion liters of water from the caves was required.
Discussions ranged from merely ready for the floodwaters to subside to instructing the staff the diving expertise they wanted to flee. It was decided to be too dangerous to show every little one the complicated expertise concerned in cave diving by murky waters, so a staff of 90 skilled divers, 40 from Thailand, and a staggering 50 from different nations, labored to convey the youngsters out whereas they have been fully sedated.
The lead divers’ portion of the journey would stretch over one kilometer, going by submerged routes whereas being supported by 90 Thai and overseas divers at varied factors performing medical check-ups, resupply of air tanks, and different emergency roles. The outcomes have been that every one twelve children and their trainer have been saved.
5 days earlier than, whereas delivering air tanks to one of many submerged chambers, Saman Kunan (Thai: สมาน กุนัน; born 23 December 1980), a 37-year-old former Thai Navy SEAL, misplaced consciousness, and tragically died of asphyxiation. A funeral sponsored and attended by the Thai royal household was held on 14 July. On the identical day, he was additionally awarded the Knight Grand Cross (first-class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant by King Vajiralongkorn.
A memorial sculpture was raised for Kunan on the entrance to the cave, depicting him main a bunch of small pigs with a flashlight. The college soccer staff’s identify is “the Wild Boars.”
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- Immediately is Tesla Day, in celebration of the Serbian-born inventor, physicist, engineer, and futurist, Nikola Tesla, who was born on today and whose theories and work on using electrical energy, wi-fi broadcast, and alternating present (AC) is right this moment renown (1856–1943)
- Armistice talks geared toward ending the Korean battle started at Kaesong (1951)
- Coca-Cola bowed to client strain in opposition to New Coke and canceled it (1985)
- The first elected President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, started his 5-year time period (1991)
- The South African cricket staff was readmitted into the Worldwide Cricket Council following the tip of Apartheid (1991)
- Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after almost six years of home arrest in Yangon, Myanmar (1995)
51 years in the past right this moment, the Bahamas grew to become a totally impartial nation after 344 years of colonial British rule. The archipelago consists of greater than 700 islands, cays, and islets within the Atlantic Ocean, and maintains a excessive diploma of pure atmosphere integrity. Whereas not a wealthy nation, the nation flourished from tourism and offshore funding following independence which created the next lifestyle for the nation in comparison with surrounding nations like Haiti.
Lengthy earlier than Britain’s Home of Lords voted to bestow independence to the Bahamas, slavery there had been abolished. After the ban in 1834, the Bahamas grew to become a haven for freed African slaves. The Royal Navy resettled Africans there who have been liberated from unlawful slave ships and different ships that reached the islands as a result of climate.
The islands of the Bahamas within the Caribbean Sea are located on giant depositional platforms (the Nice and Little Bahama Banks) composed primarily of carbonate sediments ringed by fringing reefs — the islands themselves are solely the components of the platform at the moment uncovered above sea stage.
The sediments are fashioned principally from the skeletal stays of organisms settling to the ocean ground; over geologic time, these sediments will consolidate to type carbonate sedimentary rocks reminiscent of limestone. This detailed {photograph} supplies a view of tidal flats and tidal channels close to Sandy Cay on the western facet of Lengthy Island, situated alongside the jap margin of the Nice Bahama Financial institution. (1973)
82 years in the past right this moment, Ronnie James Dio was born in New Hampshire. Extensively regarded among the many biggest of heavy metallic singers, Dio fronted a number of bands all through his profession, together with Dio, Elf, and Rainbow with Richie Blackmore, however is probably finest identified for being the person who took over Ozzy Osbourne’s function as frontman to Black Sabbath after his pressured departure. READ about his most iconic contributions to heavy metallic… (1942)
Concerning his most widely-cited affect on heavy metallic and rock, the “satan horns” hand gesture, “Ronald James Padavona” mentioned that since he was born to Italian-immigrant dad and mom, he would often be pressured to endure a Sicilian grandmother’s scolding by her inserting a fist to her brow with the index and pinky fingers raised, simulating the horns of the satan. That is what impressed him to apply it to stage.
With Black Sabbath, he sang on Heaven & Hell, and Mob Guidelines, albums that basically supported Sabbath’s persevering with reputation with the lack of their iconic, bat-munching frontman. Afterwards, Dio’s solo album, Holy Diver, gave heavy metallic two iconic singles in Holy Diver, and Rainbow within the Darkish.
When Dio handed away in 2010 from abdomen most cancers, Rolling Stone eulogized that: “It wasn’t simply his mighty pipes that made him Ronnie James Dio — it was his ethical fervor…what at all times stood out was Dio’s raging compassion for the misplaced rock & roll kids in his viewers. Dio by no means pretended to be one of many children — he sang as an grownup assuring us that we weren’t alone in our struggling, and sometime we would even be pleased with conquering it.”
On today 149 years in the past, Mary McLeod Bethune was born to former slaves in South Carolina. She realized as a baby, the significance of studying to learn and set her sights on turning into a trainer for her household and different black kids.
In her 20s, she rented a small home, constructed benches and desks from discarded crates, made ink from elderberries, and opened a rigorous coaching faculty for women in Daytona, Florida. Bethune additionally courted rich white benefactors like John D. Rockefeller to develop her faculty.
In 1931, it grew to become the Bethune-Cookman Faculty. Later, Bethune grew to become a detailed adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and the one black girl current on the founding of the UN. So quite a few have been her awards, accolades, and accomplishments that she has been referred to as one in every of America’s biggest ladies, with “one of the dramatic careers ever enacted at any time upon the stage of human exercise.”
Bethune wrote later about opening her schoolroom with simply $1.50, “I thought of money cash because the smallest a part of my sources. I had religion in a loving God, religion in myself, and a need to serve.” (1875)
She died in 1955. (CHECK out these Mary McLeod Bethune books.)
Completely happy Birthday to the gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples, who turns 84 years outdated right this moment. Born in Chicago, she began singing along with her household’s band The Staple Singers as a younger woman, and her deep-throated voice catapulted the group to the highest of the charts eight instances between 1971 and 1975, with songs like I’ll Take You There, Let’s Do It Once more, and Respect Your self.
Her father “Pops’’ was shut mates with Martin Luther King, Jr., so the singers marched alongside him whereas offering the non secular soundtrack to the civil rights motion. Mavis additionally labored with Prince for 2 of her 16 solo albums—Time Waits for No One in 1989, and 1993’s The Voice—and he or she’s toured with good good friend Bob Dylan, and collaborated with dozens of different musical legends from Ray Charles to Arcade Hearth. That’s additionally her voice singing the theme track on Nationwide Lampoon’s Christmas Trip.
The Grammy-winning Rock-Corridor-of-Famer celebrated her eightieth birthday not too long ago, taking the mic on the Apollo Theater—with David Byrne and Norah Jones—63 years after first showing on its stage as a young person. She has no plans of retiring as a result of she completely loves performing. WATCH a video about her birthday… (1939)
NOTE: When you’re exterior the US, watch the video on the CBS web site right here.
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