Hurricane Sergio was a powerful and long-lived tropical cyclone that hit
the Baja California Peninsula as a tropical storm and caused flooding
throughout southern Texas in early October 2018. Sergio became the
eighth Category 4 hurricane in the East Pacific for 2018, breaking the
record of seven set in the 2015 season. The twentieth named storm,
eleventh hurricane, and ninth major hurricane of the season, Sergio
organized into a tropical storm on September 29 and became a hurricane
on October 2. It peaked as a Category 4 hurricane on October 4, with
reported maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h). It maintained
peak intensity for 12 hours before weakening. The system then began
another period of intensification, achieving a secondary peak with
reported winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) on October 6. It made landfall
in western Baja California Sur on October 12, caused over US$2 million
in damage, and triggered over a thousand school closures. (This article
is part of a featured topic: 2018 Pacific hurricane season.).
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/2018_Pacific_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1835:
Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in
Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the
Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales>
1879:
Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian
Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government
refused to ratify the treaty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Livadia>
1942:
Second World War: HMS Curacoa was accidentally rammed and sunk
by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from
submarine attacks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Curacoa_%28D41%29>
1971:
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of
South Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Thi%E1%BB%87u>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Gandhigiri:
(India) The practice of Gandhism (“the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi,
encompassing tenets such as non-violent activism”), often expressed
through unorthodox forms of activism such as depositing flowers or
planting trees.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gandhigiri>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple,
however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
--Graham Greene
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Graham_Greene>
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