The meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon spanned thirteen days and included six landfalls. The hurricane formed near Panama in the southwestern Caribbean on November 9, 1994. As a tropical depression it brushed Nicaragua and spent several days in the waters off the country's coast. Heading north and then northwest, Gordon made two more landfalls, on eastern Jamaica and eastern Cuba, while delivering tremendous rains to western Hispaniola. After it made its fourth landfall crossing the Florida Keys, it spent a few days as an unusual hybrid of a tropical and a subtropical system in the Gulf of Mexico. It reclaimed its fully tropical form and made another landfall, across the Florida peninsula, and continued into the Atlantic Ocean, where it strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. It briefly wandered close to North Carolina, but then headed south, weakening into a minor tropical storm before its final landfall on Florida's east coast.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Gordon

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1692:

An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake

1788:

Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles

1810:

Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Moreno

1938:

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood

1998:

Three white supremacists murdered African American James Byrd Jr. by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

stalwart: 1. Courageous. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stalwart

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can. I give you what I have. You don’t get all your questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in the developing world of my Poem? I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.   --Gwendolyn Brooks https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks