Typhoon Gay was the strongest and longest-lasting storm of the 1992
Pacific typhoon season. Forming in November near the International Date
Line, Gay moved through the Marshall Islands as an intensifying typhoon,
severely damaging crops and leaving 5,000 people homeless. The nation's
capital of Majuro experienced power and water outages during the storm.
There were no fatalities among Marshall Islands citizens, although the
typhoon killed an American woman in a yacht. After passing through the
country, Gay reached its peak intensity over open waters before
weakening rapidly and striking Guam. Most of the weaker structures on
that island had been destroyed during Typhoon Omar earlier in the year,
and Gay caused little additional structural damage, but strong, salty
winds defoliated plants. The typhoon briefly re-intensified before
weakening and becoming extratropical south of Japan, where it brought
flooding and power outages to Okinawa Prefecture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Gay_(1992)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1642:
First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much
larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham
Green, Middlesex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Turnham_Green>
1841:
Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal
magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called
hypnotism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_(surgeon)>
1940:
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in
stereophonic sound, premiered in thirteen cities across the United
States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)>
1985:
The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic
mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia (destruction
pictured), and killed approximately 23,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy>
1990:
A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New
Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal
shooting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Romanesco:
1. Romanesco broccoli, a light-green edible flower bud of the species
Brassica oleracea, which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower.
Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal.
2. Romanesco dialect, the dialect of Italian language spoken in Rome.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Romanesco>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An unjust law is no law at all.
--Augustine of Hippo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo>