Tropical Depression Nineteen-E was a weak tropical cyclone that caused
flooding in northwestern Mexico and the United States during the 2018
Pacific hurricane season. By September 7, 2018, the storm had entered
the northeastern Pacific Ocean, after crossing Central America. Despite
disorganization and its close proximity to land, the meandering
disturbance developed into a tropical depression in the Gulf of
California on September 19, with peak maximum sustained winds reported
as 35 mph (55 km/h). Although the storm quickly deteriorated after
landfall, thirteen people were killed in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora,
and recorded agricultural losses exceeded US$40 million. Overall, the
storm affected eleven Mexican states, with torrential rainfall and
flooding in Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, and Sonora. Remnant moisture
from Nineteen-E led to severe flooding in the U.S. states of Arizona,
Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, with damage estimates totalling about
$250 million.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Depression_Nineteen-E_%282018%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (both pictured)
founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the
American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously
founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association>
1904:
Russo-Japanese War: After striking several mines off Port
Arthur, the Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yashima>
1948:
One day after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Egypt,
Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invaded Israel to
begin the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War>
2004:
Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight
to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in
1888–1889.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_Arsenal_F.C._season>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
primigravida:
(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal who is
pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primigravida>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he
took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. "You people
with hearts," he said, "have something to guide you, and need never do
wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives
me a heart of course I needn't mind so much."
--L. Frank Baum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum>
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