Tropical Storm Bonnie was the second storm of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, making landfall in Florida in August. It developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Lesser Antilles. After moving through the islands, its forward motion caused the wave to dissipate, but it later regenerated into a tropical storm near the Yucatán Peninsula. It attained peak winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) over the Gulf of Mexico, turned to the northeast, and hit Florida with sustained 45 mph (75 km) winds. The storm accelerated to the northeast and became an extratropical cyclone to the east of New Jersey. Bonnie was the first of five tropical systems to make landfall on Florida that year, and the second of a record eight disturbances to reach tropical storm strength during the month of August. Bonnie caused a tornado outbreak across the Southeastern United States that killed three people and inflicted damage costs of over $1 million. Other impacts were minimal, including flooding and minor damage in Florida. The day after Bonnie made landfall, Hurricane Charley struck Florida.
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1202:
The first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the Siege of Zara, began in Zadar, Croatia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Zara
1865:
Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wirz
1945:
Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Surabaya
1989:
Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov resigned and was replaced by Petar Mladenov (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Mladenov
2007:
At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFPor_qu%C3%A9_no_te_callas%3F
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omnibus: Containing multiple items. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnibus
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower. --Mikhail Kalashnikov https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov