The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) in which storms were given names by the United States Air force from the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. It was an active season with sixteen tropical storms, with eleven of them developing into hurricanes. Eight of these hurricanes were intense enough to be classified as major hurricanes—a denomination reserved for storms that attained sustained winds equivalent to a Category 3 or greater on the present-day Saffir-Simpson scale. The high number of major hurricanes make 1950 the holder of the record for the most systems of such intensity in a single season. The large quantity of strong storms during the year yielded the highest seasonal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) of the 20th century. The tropical cyclones of the season produced a total of 88 fatalities and $38.5 million in property damage. The first officially named Atlantic hurricane was Hurricane Able (path pictured), which formed on August 12, brushed the North Carolina coastline, and later moved across southeastern Canada. The strongest hurricane of the season, Hurricane Dog reached the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and caused extensive damage to the Leeward Islands.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Atlantic_hurricane_season

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1598:

Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Noryang, the final naval battle of the Imjin War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Noryang

1653:

Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

1761:

Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kolberg_(Seven_Years%27_War)

1918:

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1918%E2%80%931919)

1930:

Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", was shot and killed during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lamm

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

tergiversation: 1. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal. 2. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tergiversation

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. --George Santayana https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana