Tropical Storm Carlotta was a tropical cyclone that caused flooding in
several states in southwestern and central Mexico. The system
strengthened into a tropical storm on June 15, 2018. It reached peak
intensity two days later with reported maximum sustained winds of
65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 997 millibars
(29.44 inHg) when it was only 30 mi (50 km) south-southeast of
Acapulco. Interaction with the land and wind shear weakened the storm to
a tropical depression later in the day, and on June 19 the storm
dissipated. Carlotta prompted the issuance of watches and warnings for
the southern coast of Mexico. The storm caused three deaths, two in
Aguascalientes and the other in Oaxaca. Flooding and landslides also
occurred throughout the states of Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Michoacán,
Oaxaca, and Puebla, as well as in the Yucatán Peninsula. Damage from
the system was reported to be minor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Carlotta_%282018%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South
Carolina, from the Confederacy, while a large fire of unknown origin
destroyed much of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Columbia>
1904:
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (title
character shown) premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing
him to revise the opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly>
1964:
Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but
France, honoring a 1960 treaty, would forcibly reinstate him two days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1974:
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it
on the South Lawn of the White House.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobbyist:
A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobbyist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political
action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral
command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is
unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to
obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as
though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than
they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
--Hans Morgenthau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Morgenthau>
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