satellite imagery. The fifth tropical cyclone, fifth named storm, and
fifth hurricane of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Esther developed
from an area of disturbed weather hundreds of miles west-southwest of
the southernmost Cape Verde Islands on September 10. The storm moved
and strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane and peaked with sustained
winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) on September 18. Esther began to weaken
while approaching New England and fell to Category 3 intensity on
September 21, later weakening to a tropical storm, and struck Cape Cod
and southeastern Maine on September 26, dissipating early on
September 27. Between North Carolina and New Jersey effects were
primarily limited to strong winds and minor beach erosion and coastal
flooding due to storm surge. In New York, strong winds led to severe
crop losses and over 300,000 power outages. Some areas observed more
than 8 inches (200 mm) of rainfall. Overall, damage was minor, totaling
about $6 million. There were also seven deaths reported when United
States Navy P5M aircraft crashed about 120 miles (190 km) north of
Bermuda.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Esther>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh>
1898:
In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italian anarchist Luigi
Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva,
Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria>
1937:
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the
Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Conference>
1961:
At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von
Trips's vehicle collided with another, causing it to become airborne and
crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Trips>
2008:
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-
energy particle accelerator, was first powered up beneath the Franco-
Swiss border near Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
variadic:
(Computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of
arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/variadic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence,
serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll
take it.
--Mary Oliver
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver>
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