The 2006 Pacific hurricane season was the most active since 2000, which
also produced 19 tropical storms or hurricanes, of which six attained
major hurricane status. The strongest storm of the season was Hurricane
Ioke, which reached Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale in
the central Pacific Ocean; Ioke passed near Johnston Atoll and later
Wake Island, where it caused heavy damage but no deaths. The deadliest
storm of the season was Hurricane John, which killed six people after
striking the Baja California Peninsula, and the costliest storm was
Hurricane Lane, which caused $203 million in damage in southwestern
Mexico. Seasonal activity began on May 27 when Tropical Storm Aletta
formed off the southwest coast of Mexico. No storms formed in June,
though the season became active in July when five named storms
developed, including Hurricane Daniel which was the second strongest
storm of the season. During August, Hurricanes Ioke and John formed, as
well as four other storms. September was a relatively quiet month with
two storms, of which one was Hurricane Lane. Three storms developed in
October and two formed in November; this marked the first time on
record when more than one tropical storm developed in the basin during
the month of November.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1009:
The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in
the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg (in modern Germany).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_Lithuania>
1842:
The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho
San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_San_Francisco>
1862:
American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two
powered ironclad warships , the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia,
fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads>
1944:
World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces
inflicted heaving bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800
people, mostly civilians.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tallinn_in_World_War_II>
1946:
Thirty-three people were killed in a stampede at Burnden Park, a
football stadium in Bolton, England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnden_Park_disaster>
1956:
Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations in Tbilisi,
Georgia, against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization
policy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
filigree (n):
1. A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver
twisted wire.
2. A design resembling such intricate ornamentation
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filigree>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is.
People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
--Yuri Gagarin
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin>
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