Hurricane Emily was the strongest storm of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane
season, and caused record flooding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The fifth named storm of the season, Emily became a tropical storm on
August 25, after becoming nearly stationary southeast of Bermuda. On
August 31, the hurricane reached peak winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) on
its approach to North Carolina. Part of the eye passed over Hatteras
Island in the Outer Banks, but its absolute center remained 23 mi
(37 km) offshore. Emily's strong winds coincided with high tides during
a full moon, causing severe flooding along the Pamlico Sound. The
villages of Avon and Hatteras were inundated, and in Buxton, the floods
left behind water marks as high as 10.54 ft (3.21 m). The storm
wrecked 553 homes, leaving a quarter of the Cape Hatteras population
homeless. Off the coasts of North Carolina and Virginia, three swimmers
drowned.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Emily_%281993%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1802:
Gia Long conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which
had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia_Long>
1894:
Jules-Albert de Dion finished first in the world's first motor
race, but did not win as his steam-powered car was against the rules.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Albert_de_Dion>
1983:
The Communist Polish government ended the 19-month period of
martial law it had imposed in an attempt to counter political
opposition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Poland>
1991:
American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his
apartment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
radiole:
1. (zoology) The spine of a sea urchin.
2. (zoology) A heavily ciliated feather-like tentacle occuring in
clusters on the crowns of certain tubeworms, especially those of the
order Canalipalpata (the fan-head worms), used for feeding and
respiration.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radiole>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we
can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or
fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today that our
children and our children's children may be proud of the name of man.
--Stephen Vincent Benét
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Vincent_Ben%C3%A9t>
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