Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season. A destructive and widespread storm, Carmen originated as a tropical disturbance that traveled westward from Africa, spawning a tropical depression east of the Lesser Antilles on August 29. Moving through the Caribbean Sea, it quickly strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula. It turned north into the Gulf of Mexico, re-intensified, and made a second landfall in the marshland of southern Louisiana, dissipating over eastern Texas on September 10. Tropical cyclone watches and warnings had been issued for the storm, and around 100,000 residents left their homes and sought shelter. Damage was lighter than first feared, but the sugar industry suffered substantial losses. The hurricane killed 8 people and caused damage valued at $162 million. The name Carmen was retired from the list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names in 1975.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1491:

Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo

1848:

The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet

1913:

Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra

1920:

Relying on the 11th Soviet Red Army operating in neighboring Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Georgian_coup_attempt

1999:

A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth (301 ±20 mph, or 484 ±32 km/h) in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

en passant: 1. In passing, by the way, incidentally. 2. (chess) Of a player's pawn when it has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game: captured "in passing" by the other player's pawn, as if the first player's pawn had only moved forward one square. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_passant

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