cyclones and three hurricanes, and was the only Atlantic hurricane
season of the 1990s with no major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on
the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale). Tropical activity lasted from
Alberto's formation on June 30 to Gordon's weakening on November 21.
Tropical Storm Alberto produced significant rainfall and flooding in the
Southeastern United States, damaging or destroying over 18,000 homes. In
August, Tropical Storm Beryl produced its heaviest rainfall in Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Along with a tornado it
spawned, Beryl caused numerous injuries. Tropical Storm Debby killed
nine people in the Caribbean in September. Florence was the most intense
hurricane, at Category 2, but never made landfall. Extreme flooding and
mudslides from Hurricane Gordon caused around 1,122 fatalities in Haiti
and other deaths over the course of six landfalls from Costa Rica to
North Carolina. A nor'easter in December may have had tropical
characteristics, but was not classified as a tropical system.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Atlantic_hurricane_season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1657:
Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet under Admiral Robert Blake
attacked a Spanish treasure fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the
Spanish Canary Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1657)>
1792:
After Foreign Minister Charles François Dumouriez presented
the French Legislative Assembly with a long list of grievances against
Austria, France declared war to begin the French Revolutionary Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars>
1884:
Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Humanum genus,
denouncing Freemasonry as well as a number of beliefs and practices
purportedly associated with it such as popular sovereignty and the
separation of church and state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanum_genus>
1968:
British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell made his
controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to immigration and
anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the
Shadow Cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech>
1998:
The violent German revolutionary group known as the Red Army
Faction announced that it had dissolved.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
digestif:
An alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is
presumed to aid digestion.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/digestif>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer
know what they're looking at, there may well be other unicorns in the
world yet — unknown — and glad of it.
--The Last Unicorn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)>
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