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From Smithsonian Photo of the Day; January 17, 2018:

Superfund Cleanup Site

Concord Naval Weapons Station was a military base established in 1942 - it functioned as a World War II armament storage depot and continued to support war efforts during the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, processing and shipping thousands of tons of materiel out across the Pacific Ocean. In 1994, it was listed as Superfund cleanup site-32 areas of the facility were identified as having been contaminated with heavy metals. In 2014, the site was approved for self-driving test cars.

Photographer: Jassen Todorov; San Francisco, California

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EBRPD Sued by Seeno Developers on New Concord Hills Regional Park Land Use Plan

A new lawsuit filed on behalf of Concord-based developer Albert Seeno, III  & Discovery Builders could delay the East Bay Regional Park District’s ability to move forward with implementation of its plans to provide public access at a new regional park at the former Concord Naval Weapons Station.

On July 7, 2020, the Park District Board of Directors unanimously approved the Concord Hills Regional…

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306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. 677 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls. 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. 1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine married Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux. 1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal. 1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. 1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile. 1467 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively. 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. 1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil. 1547 – Henry II of France is crowned. 1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral. 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707. 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico. 1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border. 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. 1759 – French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed. 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. 1814 – War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed. 1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. 1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank. 1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established. 1869 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. 1898 – In the Puerto Rican Campaign, the United States seizes Puerto Rico from Spain. 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross. 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. 1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation. 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war. 1946 – Nuclear weapons testing: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51. 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed, under President Habib Bourguiba. 1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. 1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. 1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. 1978 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. 1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. 1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt. 1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. 1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. 1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. 1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people. 2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.

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Here to deliver the over 1800 signatures asking the Concord City Council to revisit and give time for all of the community feedback (Brown Act) of county constituents shocked and horrified at Seeno being given the master developer contract for developing the Concord Naval Weapons Station while ensuring the 2012 negotiations aren’t thrown out the door. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVgjb9pvkb9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Opinion: Lennar must abide by Concord weapons station labor deal As a former Concord High School teacher, Concord mayor, Contra Costa County supervisor and state Assembly member representing Concord, I have followed the planning process for the Concord Naval Weapons Station development and reuse project for many years.

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Rep. Jack Bergman: Our veterans gave their best, and deserve the best in return

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(Laughter.) More seriously, your service and the service of generations before you have helped make America the great and glorious place that it is. Americans have always looked out for one another. It’s what we do. Our first veterans knew the stakes of the battle for independence – for them, for their.

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 · Republicans seek to cut veterans benefits, and disabled veterans need to be on the lookout for shady politics that could reduce their disability compensation.

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 · (Updated 8/21/19) On the heels of Memorial Day, I figured it was time to research which retail stores, restaurants, travel services, and entertainment spots offer a veterans or military discount. Why this list is relatively small is kinda a head scratcher for me. You’d think darn everybody would offer a discount of some type for those who keep us save, and more importantly, free.

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When I get back I’m going to scope out the new Concord Hills Regional Park ... former Concord Naval Weapons Station.  Looks good for hike & fly.  

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Amtrak FP7 #122, formerly SP #6459, has Amtrak's "San Joaquin" in tow as it enters the connector track from the SP to the Santa Fe at Port Chicago. The overhead in the background carried the rails for the Concord Naval Weapons Station trains. This is all closed off now and the weapons station is closed. Unfortunatley, they always seemed to be digging out there. January, 1976

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Park District Board Approves Land Use Plan for New Regional Park in Diablo Valley

Park District Board Approves Land Use Plan for New Regional Park in Diablo Valley

On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, the East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors unanimously approved the final land use plan for public access improvements and open space preservation at the Park District’s new 2,540-plus-acre Concord Hills Regional Park (working name). The final land use plan includes a joint visitor center with the National Park Service highlighting the history of the Port…

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Industry, Transportation, and Politics: The Energy Economics of the Détente

Throughout the planet’s history, development and politics often followed the growing need for energy. The planet’s descent to technological regression began after the end of the Leveler society, when the last of their poorly-understood generators ceased to function. The need to move goods and people dictated largely where important cities grew.

The chief source of the planet’s energy at present is electricity. First adopted by the so-called “electric cultures” (the Teslans, Bufferians, and the Mapotherian religion), electricity is the prime mover of the economy, directly responsible for powering machinery and is indirectly involved in the complex process of creating biodiesel, ethylene, and other sources of fuel. The need to generate electricity has influenced the demographics of several nations over the years; energy became an influential aspect of geopolitics.

The Mill Cities

At first, most growth had been restricted to major river systems, which allowed boat traffic to carry goods with relative ease. This continued well into the modern era, and most major cities today are situated in rivers or river mouths.

The advent of industrialization later kicked the demand for energy sources into overdrive. During the advent of the industrial era and prior to the widescale adoption of steam power, the chief source of energy had also been water, and river systems became dotted with mill cities, drawing populations away from rural villages and putting an end to many (though not all) feudal systems.

The resultant demographic shifts toward large population centers fostered greater demand of more efficient agriculture, which then needed to be mechanized and irrigated. Damming rivers soon threatened to put the kibosh on the mills downstream. This became problematic in the southern mainland, where river systems often crossed multiple states and feudal realms within them. The escalating conflict between upriver agriculture and downriver industry was a point of contention between Pascal and Chapekosia for much of their history prior to the Steam Era.

Wood and Steam

Resolving the conflict between the mills and the farms would soon become the catalyst for the widespread re-adoption of steam power. This signaled the beginning of the Steam Era, a time of technological sophistication that, in a world devoid of coal, was instead fueled by forests.  For the moment, the sadistic choice between energy and food was momentarily avoided—and, with the arrival of mechanized agriculture, averted.

Deforestation, however, was not without consequence. The felling of trees led to several cases of regionalized climate change, causing frequent dry spells and subsequent famines. As trees became scarce, economic recessions emerged due to rising fuel and food prices.  

The gradual shift to plantation wood eventually came to the aid of the surviving Leveler-era forests. Fast-growing tree species were ready for harvest within a span of a few short years, and could be coppiced for quick growth.

Imperialism and Hydroelectricity

The immense amount of fuel needed to power the industrial centers meant that the industrial states had two options: have large swaths of land dedicated for plantation wood or finding yet another, more efficient source of power.

Many colonies were established for the sole purpose of expanding energy reserves through forestry. Empires as powerful as Meridian and Concord needed vast quantities of forests to power the industrial engines it needed to fuel its industries. And because plantation forestry for wood fuel is staggered and still relatively slow, truly vast tracts of forests were needed to secure energy resources.

River nations would once again take the center stage with the advent of electricity. Stephensonia, the first nation to utilize electric motors on an industrial scale, could generate massive amounts of power from hydroelectric power stations built into its dams.

Dams would become common across the planet to continue fueling electricity, followed by geothermal power in tectonically active regions like portions of what is now South Jejima.  Although some states could meet their energy needs through hydroelectricity and geothermal electric sources alone, these sources were still limited in scope. Expansive empires like Meridian and the Kingdom of Concord thus still utilized their plantations to fuel their thermal power plants, which began to dot their metropoleis. Even though the steam engine was starting to fall out of use, it was still the Steam Era in all but name.

Fart Power

Methane (famously associated with flatulence) was also discovered in naturally occurring sources during the advent of the electric era. Methane burned well and could be condensed or piped as harvestable fuel. Moreover, it, like wood, was biogenic: garbage tips were constantly brimming with the flammable gas as produced throughout decomposition. Thermal plants capable of burning methane were also eventually employed to take advantage of localized pockets of the gas.

Although whole cities can theoretically be powered by the gas of their garbage, there wasn’t nearly enough methane produced in landfills or accessible in natural deposits for methane gas electricity to be widespread outside population centers.

The Nuclear Lifeline

Uranium would turn out to be the energy source that would be the death knell of the plantation system, the last vestige of the Steam Era. Bufferia’s rediscovery and adoption of nuclear fission power changed the face of energy politics.  Meridian, Royal Concord, and the cantons of the Federation were quick to capitalize on their own deposits of uranium, which quickly weaned them off wood fuel.

Bufferia even encountered a massive technological boom unheard from the country before or since. Chancellor Delgado, hailed as the architect of the nuclear program, commissioned many research and development projects, among them the semi-legendary lead suits. These suits—lead-lined mecha powered by a portable nuclear reactor—were allegedly the first attempt to replicate Leveler-era industrial–military hardware since the Meridian war weapon Hypathia, itself powered by rare and poorly understood Leveler-era batteries. The lead suits would be the prototype of several nuclear-powered naval vessels that continue to plow through the oceans of the present.

The demand for uranium, however, will put the fledgling republic into the path of conflict with Meridian, which took over the region of Campbell, incidentally the world’s largest source of uranium. The Meridian Empire’s adoption of the nuclear reactor meant that Campbell, formerly a plantation colony and penal colony in all but name, suddenly became valuable to the great power.

Biofuels

However, though electricity is the chief driver of industry, it pales in comparison to the influene of biofuels such as alcohol. Alcohol was produced from several plants, including sugar cane. Federation cantons such as North Jejima, which produced massive amounts of sugar, frequently produced alcohol as a byproduct of sugar production, thus enabling the Federation to adopt automobiles on a widespread scale in the early half of the past century.

Farming alcohol-producing plants once more presented the food-or-energy dilemma, which made nations outside the sugar-producing Federation cantons from adopting widescale alcohol production in the first half of the century, with fears that diverting agrarian fields and high-alcohol yield crops such as maize toward fuel production would affect food supplies.

Alternatives were few and far in between. Attempts at electric vehicles have been met with limited uneconomical success in Bufferia, Royal Concord, and Meridian.

Drunken Car Politics

Only one other plant offered the same volume of biofuel as corn and sugar cane, and its ability to grow in marginal farmland economically made it an economic game breaker for desert nations.

Switchgrass.

Switchgrass is largely produced as a monocultured crop in marginal farmlands otherwise useless for other crops, sidestepping the issues surrounding the food-or-energy dilemma. Swaths of switchgrass fields emerged in irrigated desert regions throughout Pascal, Chapekosia, and what would now become the Republic of Shinar. Shinar’s cities quickly became known for automobile traffic within the last half century.

Shinar provided much of the Meridian Empire’s vehicular alcohol, thus the revolution had put it on a minor warpath that threatened the peace achieved during the Détente in the wake of the last Steam War. Further campaigns against Shinar, now a republic allied with the United Federation, were called off upon a trade agreement that provided the Meridian Empire inexpensive, price controlled alcohol fuel, on the condition that it pursue no further military actions against the Republic of Shinar.

This agreement appeared to be rather humiliating for the current Meridian Emperor, Frederick III, and his court.

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309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, perhaps from a hunger strike. 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate. 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping. 1186 – Georgenberg Pact: Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided. 1386 – Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return. 1424 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under Jean II, Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. 1498 – Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois. 1549 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England. 1560 – The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland. 1585 – Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. 1585 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. 1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores. 1668 – A magnitude 8.0 earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in Anatolia, Ottoman Empire. 1712 – Action of 17 August 1712 New Deep naval battle between Denmark and Sweden. 1717 – Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire. 1723 – Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI. 1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope. 1784 – Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. 1798 – The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1808 – The Finnish War: The Battle of Alavus was fought. 1827 – Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord. 1836 – British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths. 1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. 1866 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces her withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia. 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. 1896 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom. 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered. 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). 1916 – World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side. 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published. 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed. 1953 – First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California. 1955 – Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people. 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. 1962 – Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall. 1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage. 1970 – Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. 1985 – The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. 1991 – Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself. 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship. 1999 – The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured. 2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts. 2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games. 2009 – An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area. 2015 – A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. 2017 – Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100. 2019 – A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.

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Fate of $5 billion Concord Naval Weapons Station redevelopment remains uncertain

The saga of Lennar Corp.’s proposal for a $5 billion buildout of the Concord Naval Weapons Station will drag on — maybe. 

Concord selected Lennar (NYSE: LEN) in 2016 to develop a master plan for the 2,327-acre site near the North Concord BART. Lennar’s broader plan for the entire project calls for 13,000 homes, of which 25% would be set aside for low-income residents. The site would include 6.1 million square feet of commercial space, including 2.3 million square feet for a college campus,…