Cyclone Chapala was a powerful tropical cyclone that hit Yemen and
brushed Somalia in November 2015. The third named storm of the 2015
North Indian Ocean cyclone season, it developed as a depression on
28 October off western India, and strengthened a day later into a
cyclonic storm. On 30 October, the India Meteorological Department
estimated Chapala's peak three-minute sustained winds at 215 km/h
(130 mph). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated one-minute
sustained winds of 240 km/h (150 mph), making Chapala one of the
strongest cyclones on record in the Arabian Sea. Chapala skirted the
Yemeni island of Socotra on 1 November, becoming the first hurricane-
force storm there since 1922. Upon entering the Gulf of Aden on
2 November, it became the strongest known cyclone in that body of
water. After brushing Somalia, the storm made landfall on 3 November,
near Mukalla, Yemen, as a very severe cyclonic storm. It was the
strongest storm on record to strike Yemen, where eight people died. .
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_scales#North_Indian_Ocean>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1880:
At an assembly of 10,000 Boers, Paul Kruger announced the
fulfilment of the decision to restore the government and volksraad of
the South African Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger>
1927:
Three different organizations established by Robert S.
Brookings merged to form the Brookings Institution, one of the United
States' oldest think tanks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution>
1980:
John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota in New
York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon>
2010:
The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS flew by Venus at a
distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to
demonstrate solar-sail technology.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Mariolatry:
(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary
to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mariolatry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put
in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction
between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it.
If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
--Lucian Freud
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud>