The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in the Atlantic
hurricane database (HURDAT) in which storms were given names by the
United States Air force from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. It
was an active season with sixteen tropical storms, with eleven of them
developing into hurricanes. Eight of these hurricanes were intense
enough to be classified as major hurricanes—a denomination reserved
for storms that attained sustained winds equivalent to a Category 3 or
greater on the present-day Saffir-Simpson scale. The high number of
major hurricanes make 1950 the holder of the record for the most systems
of such intensity in a single season. The large quantity of strong
storms during the year yielded the highest seasonal accumulated cyclone
energy (ACE) of the 20th century. The tropical cyclones of the season
produced a total of 88 fatalities and $38.5 million in property
damage. The first officially named Atlantic hurricane was Hurricane Able
(path pictured), which formed on August 12, brushed the North Carolina
coastline, and later moved across southeastern Canada. The strongest
hurricane of the season, Hurricane Dog reached the equivalent of a
Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and caused extensive
damage to the Leeward Islands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Atlantic_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1598:
Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet at
the Battle of Noryang, the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Noryang>
1653:
Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of
England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell>
1761:
Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's
last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kolberg_(Seven_Years%27_War)>
1918:
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet
Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1918%E2%80%931919)>
1930:
Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", was shot and
killed during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lamm>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tergiversation:
1. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides;
desertion; betrayal.
2. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being
deliberately ambiguous; equivocation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tergiversation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from
being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
--George Santayana
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana>