Hurricane Esther was the first tropical cyclone to be discovered by satellite imagery. The fifth tropical cyclone, fifth named storm, and fifth hurricane of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Esther developed from an area of disturbed weather hundreds of miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands on September 10. The storm moved and strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane and peaked with sustained winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) on September 18. Esther began to weaken while approaching New England and fell to Category 3 intensity on September 21, later weakening to a tropical storm, and struck Cape Cod and southeastern Maine on September 26, dissipating early on September 27. Between North Carolina and New Jersey effects were primarily limited to strong winds and minor beach erosion and coastal flooding due to storm surge. In New York, strong winds led to severe crop losses and over 300,000 power outages. Some areas observed more than 8 inches (200 mm) of rainfall. Overall, damage was minor, totaling about $6 million. There were also seven deaths reported when United States Navy P5M aircraft crashed about 120 miles (190 km) north of Bermuda.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1547:

Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh

1898:

In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria

1937:

Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Conference

1961:

At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's vehicle collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Trips

2008:

CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest- energy particle accelerator, was first powered up beneath the Franco- Swiss border near Geneva. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

variadic: (Computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/variadic

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.   --Mary Oliver https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver