hurricane season with seven tropical cyclones directly affecting land.
The first tropical cyclone developed on June 11, which was about ten
days later than the normal start of the season. The final storm of the
year, Hurricane Madeline (pictured), dissipated on October 20. Storm
activity in the Central Pacific Ocean was low, with just one tropical
depression forming in the basin. Two tropical cyclones from the Eastern
Pacific, Darby and Estelle, also entered the central Pacific, with the
former entering as a hurricane. The season produced 13 named storms,
which was slightly below the average of 16 named storms per season.
However, the total of nine hurricanes during the season was equal to the
average, and the total of six major hurricanes surpassed the average.
The most notable tropical cyclone of the year was Hurricane Isis which
killed fourteen people when it made landfall on southern Baja California
and coastal Sinaloa in Mexico. Tropical Storm Javier also made landfall
on Mexico and a tropical cyclone, Hurricane Lester, affected Central
America, causing two deaths in Guatemala.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Pacific_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the
American Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machias
in what is now eastern Maine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Machias>
1847:
Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last
emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso,_Prince_Imperial_of_Brazil>
1956:
The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the
minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began,
eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_Oya_riots>
1963:
The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of
Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the
entrance to an auditorium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door>
1963:
Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death in
Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese
President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
piece together:
1. To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
2. (figuratively) To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed
elements.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piece_together>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great vice of the present day is bravura, an attempt to do
something beyond the truth. In endeavouring to do something better than
well, they do what in reality is good for nothing. Fashion always had, &
will have, its day — but truth (in all things) only will last, and can
only have just claims on posterity
--John Constable
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Constable>
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