The 1941 Atlantic hurricane season was a relatively inactive hurricane
season, with only six known storms. Four of these attained hurricane
status, and three became major hurricanes. The season had an abnormally
late start; the first system formed on September 11, nearly three months
after the official beginning date. The season was also short-lived, as
all six storms developed in rapid succession (paths pictured). On
September 23, three hurricanes existed simultaneously in the Atlantic
basin. In total, the season resulted in about 63 fatalities and over $10
million in damages. The first and last storms of the season were largely
insignificant, although the second, fourth, and fifth storms had
considerable effects. Two hurricanes struck the United States: a major
hurricane that struck Texas and Louisiana in late September, disrupting
the Louisiana Maneuvers, and Hurricane Five, which made two landfalls in
Florida, the first of which was near Miami at Category 2 intensity,
inflicting widespread damage. Another major storm—Hurricane
Four—traversed the Caribbean before striking the Nicaragua–Honduras
border at Category 4 intensity, leaving 47 men dead at sea.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Atlantic_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1001:
The Song Shi recorded a tributary mission from the Kingdom of
Butuan (Golden Tara pictured) to the Song Dynasty of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Butuan>
1860:
The First Taranaki War began at Waitara, New Zealand, marking
an important phase of the New Zealand land wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taranaki_War>
1957:
A plane crash on the slope of Mount Manunggal killed Philippine
President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Cebu_Douglas_C-47_crash>
1973:
Slava Veder took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of
Joy, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the
Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_of_Joy>
2011:
Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted
Security Council Resolution 1973, authorizing a military intervention to
protect civilians in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dudeen:
A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dudeen>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily
by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being
taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data
abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable
complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters
and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…
--William Gibson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson>