The 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane was a large Category 4 tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage across the western Caribbean Sea and the Southeastern United States. It inflicted over US$100 million in damage and was responsible for at least 318 deaths. The unprecedented availability of meteorological data during the hurricane marked a turning point in the United States Weather Bureau's ability to forecast tropical cyclones. The system became a tropical storm on October 12 and intensified into a hurricane the next day. On October 18, it made landfall on western Cuba at peak strength with reported winds of 145 mph (230 km/h). At least 300 people were killed in Cuba, which suffered extensive damage from winds and storm surge, especially in the Havana area. Numerous ships sank in Havana Harbor. On October 19 the storm made a final landfall near Sarasota, Florida, as a Category 2 hurricane. Eighteen people were killed in Florida, half of those from the loss of a ship in Tampa Bay.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1755:
After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Beaus%C3%A9jour
1904:
Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
1911:
The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing- Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing-Tabulating-Recording_Company
2010:
The Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan came into force, banning the sale and production of tobacco in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Control_Act_of_Bhutan_2010
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
nuke: 1. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target. 2. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely. 3. (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of- service attack against (an IRC user). 4. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation. 5. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuke
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. --Abraham Lincoln https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
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