Tropical Storm Vicente was a small tropical cyclone that made landfall
as a tropical depression in the Mexican state of Michoacán on
October 23, 2018, causing deadly mudslides. The 21st named storm of the
2018 Pacific hurricane season, it originated from a tropical wave that
traveled westward from Africa's western coast across the Atlantic and
entered the Eastern Pacific on October 17. The disturbance formed into
a tropical depression early on October 19 and became Tropical Storm
Vicente later that day. It peaked on October 20 with winds of 50 mph
(85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1,002 mbar (29.59 inHg). After
making landfall near Playa Azul on October 23, Vicente quickly lost
organization and dissipated a few hours later. The storm caused
torrential rainfall in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Oaxaca,
Veracruz, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Guerrero, and Colima; the rainfall exceeded
12 inches (300 mm) in Oaxaca. The storm left 16 people dead.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1832:
The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern
democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832>
1892:
Homer Plessy, an "octoroon" from New Orleans, was arrested for
refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost
the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy>
1981:
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the
assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an
Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera>
1998:
Three white supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African
American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along
an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wash one's hands of:
(transitive, idiomatic) To absolve oneself of responsibility or future
blame for (something); to refuse to have any further involvement with
(something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wash_one%27s_hands_of>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one wants my painting because it is different from other
people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible
degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him
unless his work resembles that of the others!
--Paul Gauguin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin>
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