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>
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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.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stalwart:
1. Courageous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stalwart>
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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>
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