Cyclone Chapala was a powerful tropical cyclone that hit Yemen and brushed Somalia in November 2015. The third named storm of the 2015 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, it developed as a depression on 28 October off western India, and strengthened a day later into a cyclonic storm. On 30 October, the India Meteorological Department estimated Chapala's peak three-minute sustained winds at 215 km/h (130 mph). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated one-minute sustained winds of 240 km/h (150 mph), making Chapala one of the strongest cyclones on record in the Arabian Sea. Chapala skirted the Yemeni island of Socotra on 1 November, becoming the first hurricane- force storm there since 1922. Upon entering the Gulf of Aden on 2 November, it became the strongest known cyclone in that body of water. After brushing Somalia, the storm made landfall on 3 November, near Mukalla, Yemen, as a very severe cyclonic storm. It was the strongest storm on record to strike Yemen, where eight people died. .
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1880:
At an assembly of 10,000 Boers, Paul Kruger announced the fulfilment of the decision to restore the government and volksraad of the South African Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger
1927:
Three different organizations established by Robert S. Brookings merged to form the Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution
1980:
John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota in New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon
2010:
The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS flew by Venus at a distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
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Mariolatry: (Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mariolatry
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