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. (This article is part of a featured topic: 2018 Pacific hurricane season.) .
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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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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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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