Tropical Storm Brenda (tracking map pictured) was the second named storm
of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season. It developed in the northeastern
Gulf of Mexico on July 28, and became a tropical storm after moving
ashore over the Florida Peninsula. Accelerating northeast along the U.S.
East Coast, it peaked north of Wilmington, North Carolina, as a moderate
storm with winds of 60 mph (97 km/h). After crossing the Mid-Atlantic
States and New England, it dissipated on July 31 over southern Canada.
The storm inflicted moderate damage in Florida, the worst since
Hurricane Easy of 1950, and dropped heavy rainfall as far north as New
York City. Total damage was estimated at $5 million, and at least one
traffic-related death was blamed on the cyclone. Brenda was the last
tropical cyclone to hit the U.S. mainland before the devastating
Hurricane Donna, which killed at least 364 and did close to a billion
dollars in damage (in 1960 dollars).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Brenda_(1960)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
Aboard HMS Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy
Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellerophon_(1786)>
1870:
Manitoba and the Northwest Territories were established
following the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory
from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories>
1910:
In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to
Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease>
1983:
Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish
Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport as part of its campaign for
the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Airport_attack>
2009:
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran,
killing all 168 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Airlines_Flight_7908>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
effluvium:
A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effluvium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition
away from a conformism that is about to overpower it. The Messiah comes
not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only
that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the
past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from
the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.
--Walter Benjamin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin>