Hurricane Kiko was one of the strongest tropical cyclones to ever make landfall on the eastern coast of the Baja California Peninsula. The eleventh named storm of the 1989 Pacific hurricane season, Kiko formed out of a large mesoscale convective system on August 25. Slowly tracking northwestward, the storm rapidly intensified into a hurricane early the next day. Strengthening continued until early August 27, when Kiko reached its peak intensity with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The storm turned west at this time, and at around 0600 UTC, the storm made landfall near Punta Arena on the southern tip of Baja California. The hurricane rapidly weakened into a tropical storm later that day and further into a tropical depression by August 28, shortly after entering the Pacific Ocean. The depression persisted for another day while tracking southward, before being absorbed by nearby Tropical Storm Lorena. Though Kiko made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, its impact was relatively minor. Press reports indicated that 20 homes were destroyed and numerous highways were flooded by torrential rains.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

753 BC:

Romulus and Remus founded Rome, according to the calculations by Roman scholar Varro Reatinus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

1836:

Texan forces led by Sam Houston defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna and his Mexican troops in the Battle of San Jacinto near La Porte, the decisive battle in the Texas Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto

1914:

Mexican Revolution: The United States detained a German steamer carrying materiel for the Mexican federal government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypiranga_incident

1975:

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu resigned as President of South Vietnam, and was replaced by Trần Văn Hương, as communist forces closed in on victory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Thi%E1%BB%87u

1992:

Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, the first definitive detection of exoplanets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

overawe: (transitive) To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overawe

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

 Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?   --Charlotte Brontë https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB