The 1998 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season with seven tropical cyclones directly affecting land. The first tropical cyclone developed on June 11, which was about ten days later than the normal start of the season. The final storm of the year, Hurricane Madeline (pictured), dissipated on October 20. Storm activity in the Central Pacific Ocean was low, with just one tropical depression forming in the basin. Two tropical cyclones from the Eastern Pacific, Darby and Estelle, also entered the central Pacific, with the former entering as a hurricane. The season produced 13 named storms, which was slightly below the average of 16 named storms per season. However, the total of nine hurricanes during the season was equal to the average, and the total of six major hurricanes surpassed the average. The most notable tropical cyclone of the year was Hurricane Isis which killed fourteen people when it made landfall on southern Baja California and coastal Sinaloa in Mexico. Tropical Storm Javier also made landfall on Mexico and a tropical cyclone, Hurricane Lester, affected Central America, causing two deaths in Guatemala.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Pacific_hurricane_season

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Machias

1847:

Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso,_Prince_Imperial_of_Brazil

1956:

The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_Oya_riots

1963:

The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door

1963:

Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

piece together: 1. To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces. 2. (figuratively) To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piece_together

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The great vice of the present day is bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the truth. In endeavouring to do something better than well, they do what in reality is good for nothing. Fashion always had, & will have, its day — but truth (in all things) only will last, and can only have just claims on posterity   --John Constable https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Constable