Typhoon Nabi was a powerful typhoon that struck southwestern Japan in
September 2005. The 14th named storm of the 2005 Pacific typhoon season,
Nabi formed on August 29 to the east of the Northern Mariana Islands.
On September 1, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded the storm to
super typhoon status, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the
Saffir–Simpson scale. The Japan Meteorological Agency estimated peak
ten-minute winds of 175 km/h (110 mph) on September 2. The typhoon
first affected the Northern Marianas, damaging or destroying 114 homes.
It weakened while curving to the north, striking the Japanese island of
Kyushu on September 6. The western fringe of the storm brushed South
Korea, where it killed six people and caused US$115.4 million in
damage. The storm then passed over Hokkaido before becoming
extratropical on September 8. Across Japan, Nabi killed 29 people and
caused ¥94.9 billion (US$854 million) in damage. Nabi's name was
retired the following year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nabi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
Led by Daniel Shays, disgruntled farmers in Western
Massachusetts, U.S., angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement,
started Shays' Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion>
1842:
Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, an unequal
treaty to end the First Opium War, in which the island that is now the
site of Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong>
1949:
The Soviet Union successfully conducted its first nuclear
weapons test, exploding the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1>
1991:
Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian
Mafia after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libero_Grassi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
souped-up:
1. (horse racing, cant) Of a racehorse: injected with a substance to
make it run faster or to change its temperament.
2. (road transport, slang) Of an engine, a motor vehicle, etc.: modified
for higher performance.
3. (United States Navy, slang) Drunk, intoxicated.
4. (US (chiefly Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island), slang)
Excited.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/souped-up>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To be connected to America’s causes — liberty, equal justice,
respect for the dignity of all people — brings happiness more sublime
than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are
not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than
ourselves. "Fellow Americans" — that association has meant more to me
than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of
the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil.
We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance
those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more
people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have
acquired great wealth and power in the process. We weaken our greatness
when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown
resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We
weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we
doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great
force for change they have always been. We are three-hundred-and-
twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and
compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public
debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other
than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the
benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get
through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than
before. We always do.
--John McCain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCain>