Hurricane Willa was a powerful tropical cyclone that brought torrential rains and destructive winds to the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit in October 2018. It was the twenty-second named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and tenth major hurricane of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, and tied a record as that season's third Category 5 hurricane. Willa originated from a tropical wave in the southwestern Caribbean Sea that crossed over Central America into the East Pacific without significant organization. On October 20 the system developed into a tropical depression, and strengthened later in the day into Tropical Storm Willa. It peaked as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) two days later. On October 24, Willa made landfall in Sinaloa as a marginal Category 3 hurricane. It killed nine people, and caused more than MXN$16 billion (US$820 million) in damage. (This article is part of a featured topic: Category 5 Pacific hurricanes.) .
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1951:
African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with face guards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bright_incident
1967:
Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%E2%80%93Gimlin_film
1984:
The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five- hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Spanish_trawler_Sonia
1991:
An earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Uttarkashi_earthquake
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
millennial: 1. Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old. 2. Occurring every thousand years. 3. Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium. 4. Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening. 5. (by extension, originally US, demography) Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s, and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E. 6. (Christianity) Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”) 7. (originally US, demography) Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents. 8. (obsolete) A thousandth anniversary; also, a celebration of such an anniversary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/millennial
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Well I fought for you; I fought too hard. To do it all again babe, It's gone too far. --Tom Petty https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Petty