Hurricane Gustav was a Category 2 hurricane that paralleled the East
Coast of the United States from September 8 to 12 during the 2002
Atlantic hurricane season. It was the seventh named storm and first
hurricane of the season. Initially a subtropical depression north of the
Bahamas, Gustav passed slightly to the east of the Outer Banks of North
Carolina as a tropical storm before moving northeastward and making two
landfalls in Atlantic Canada as a Category 1 hurricane. The storm was
responsible for one death and $100,000 in damage, mostly in North
Carolina. The interaction between Gustav and a non-tropical system
produced strong winds that caused an additional $240,000 (2002 USD) in
damage in New England, but this damage was not directly attributed to
the hurricane. Gustav spent the early part of its life as a subtropical
storm, and was the first such storm to be named from the current lists
by the National Hurricane Center. Previously, subtropical storms were
not given names. The cyclone was also the latest-forming first hurricane
of the season since 1941.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav_(2002)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1755:
French and Indian War: British and French forces and their
respective Indian allies fought to a draw in the Battle of Lake George.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_George>
1900:
The Great Galveston Hurricane (damage pictured), one of the
deadliest Atlantic hurricanes with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour
(215 km/h) at landfall, struck Galveston, Texas, US, killing at least
6,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane>
1941:
World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to
Leningrad, beginning a 28-month siege that would result in the deaths of
over 1 million of the city's civilians from starvation, making it one
of the most lethal battles in world history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad>
1954:
Eight nations signed an agreement to create the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization, a Southeast Asian version of NATO.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization>
1966:
The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on the
NBC television network, launching a media franchise that has since
created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current
technologies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unstinted:
Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unstinted>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it
surgically removed.
--Peter Sellers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers>