journey across the South Pacific Ocean in December 1993 and
January 1994. It developed from a tropical disturbance on 28 December
while situated south of Nauru. Crossing from the South Pacific basin
into the Australian region, the system strengthened steadily as it
paralleled the eastern Australian coast. Rewa initially peaked in
intensity as a Category 4 tropical cyclone on 2 January, then
weakened and returned to the South Pacific basin. Rewa re-entered the
Australian basin on 10 January and reintensified to Category 5 severe
tropical cyclone status by 17 January. Rewa transitioned into an
extratropical cyclone on 20 January, with its remnants bringing heavy
rain to New Zealand. Nine people in a banana dinghy en route to Rossel
Island were presumed drowned after wreckage from their boat was found.
In Queensland, three people were killed in traffic accidents caused by
the storm, and another fatality occurred when a boy became trapped in a
storm pipe. One death took place in New Caledonia, while flooding caused
eight drownings in Papua New Guinea. Following the storm, the name Rewa
was retired.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Rewa>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1558:
Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last
continental possession, for France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais>
1610:
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observation
of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io
and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until
the following day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)>
1797:
The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the
government of the Cispadane Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Italy>
1979:
The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city
Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end
of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War>
1989:
Akihito (pictured), the current Emperor of Japan, took the
throne upon the death of his father Hirohito, who became known by the
posthumous name Emperor Shōwa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
burgess:
1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
2. (historical) A town magistrate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burgess>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the
consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and
historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a
precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on
the charity of a few human beings.
--Gerald Durrell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell>
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