Hurricane Marie is tied as the seventh-most intense Pacific hurricane on record, attaining a barometric pressure of 918 mbar (hPa; 27.11 inHg) in August 2014. At its peak, the hurricane's gale-force winds spanned an area 575 miles (925 km) across. Although its center remained well away from land, its large size created dangerous surf from Southwestern Mexico to southern California. Off the coast of Los Cabos, three people drowned after their boat capsized in rough seas. In Colima and Oaxaca, heavy rains and flooding from outer bands caused two fatalities. Toward the end of August, swells of 10 to 15 ft (3.0 to 4.6 m), the largest seen from a hurricane in decades, battered coastlines in southern California, with structural damage on Santa Catalina Island and in the Greater Los Angeles Area. A breakwater near Long Beach sustained $10 million worth of damage, with portions gouged out. One person drowned in the surf near Malibu. Hundreds of ocean rescues, including over 100 in Malibu alone, were attributed to the storm, and overall losses reached $20 million.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Marie_(2014)
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1621:
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, strolled into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoset
1689:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers
1918:
Finnish Civil War: The Whites were victorious in the Battle of Länkipohja, after which they executed at least 70 Reds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%A4nkipohja
1988:
Using pistols and grenades, loyalist Michael Stone attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members who had been killed in Gibraltar ten days earlier, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack
2014:
Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a controversial referendum where voters overwhelmingly chose to join Russia as a federal subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_2014
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
glower: (intransitive) To look or stare with anger. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glower
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. --James Madison https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison
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