Typhoon Omar of 1992 was the strongest and most destructive typhoon to
strike Guam since Typhoon Pamela in 1976. It formed on August 23 from
the monsoon trough across the western Pacific Ocean, and made landfall
on Guam five days later with winds of 195 km/h (120 mph). The storm
caused damage there costing US$457 million, and one death. Strong gusts
up to 248 km/h (154 mph) left nearly the entire island without power,
disrupting the water system for several days and preventing the island-
based Joint Typhoon Warning Center from issuing advisories for 11 days.
The storm damaged or destroyed 2,158 houses, leaving 3,000 people
homeless. The next day Omar became a super typhoon with sustained winds
of 240 km/h (150 mph). Passing well north of the Philippines, it
killed 11 people. It weakened significantly before striking eastern
Taiwan on September 4; scattered flooding caused three deaths, along
with damage worth $65 million, mostly to agriculture. The storm
proceeded into eastern China the next day and dissipated on
September 9.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Omar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1639:
English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first successful
prediction and observation of a transit of Venus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_1639>
1893:
First Matabele War: A patrol of British South Africa Company
soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele
warriors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangani_Patrol>
1909:
The first Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian
Football League, was held.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Cup>
1971:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster loyalist
paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk%27s_Bar_bombing>
1992:
U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into
Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the
ongoing Somali Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Task_Force>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
froth at the mouth:
1. To spew saliva as froth.
2. (figuratively) To rage, to vent one's anger.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/froth_at_the_mouth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of
dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or
woman should have lived.
--Samuel Butler
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler>