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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Bonnie_(2004)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
omnibus:
Containing multiple items.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnibus>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>