Ireland in September. The fourth named storm of the 1961 Atlantic
hurricane season, Debbie originated from a well-defined tropical
disturbance that was first identified in late August over Central
Africa. Tracking generally westward, the system moved off the coast of
Senegal on September 5 into the Atlantic Ocean. On September 6, Debbie
passed through the southern Cape Verde Islands as a strong tropical
storm and resulted in a plane crash that killed 60 people. Thereafter
its location was uncertain until September 10 and on the following day,
Debbie attained its peak intensity as a Category 3 hurricane on the
Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, with maximum winds of 120 mph
(195 km/h). Gradually weakening, it passed over the western Azores as a
minimal hurricane on September 15 and skirted the coast of Western
Ireland on September 16 as a powerful storm. It brought record winds to
much of the country, with a peak gust of 114 mph (183 km/h) measured
just offshore, causing widespread damage and disruption, killing
12 people (and a further 6 people in Northern Ireland) and caused
US$40–50 million in damage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Debbie_(1961)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1671:
Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the
English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood>
1873:
Panic of 1873: The Vienna Stock Exchange crashed, following two
years of overexpansion in the German and Austro-Hungarian economies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873>
1877:
Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu made a
speech in the Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman
suzerainty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Kog%C4%83lniceanu>
1960:
The United States Food and Drug Administration announced it
would approve the use of Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it
the first oral contraceptive pill.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill>
1979:
Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having
been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges,
triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib_Elghanian>
2005:
Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his
predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required
after the nominee's death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatification_of_Pope_John_Paul_II>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
green gown:
(now archaic, historical) A dress that has been stained green from
rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity,
especially a woman's loss of virginity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green_gown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born,
and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
--J. M. Barrie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Barrie>
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