Hurricane Erika was a weak hurricane that struck northeastern Mexico in
August of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Erika was the eighth
tropical cyclone, fifth tropical storm, and third hurricane of the
season. At first, the National Hurricane Center did not designate it as
a hurricane because initial data suggested winds of only 70 mph
(110 km/h) at Erika's peak intensity, but it was retroactively deemed a
hurricane based on further data. Developing in the eastern Gulf of
Mexico on August 14, Erika moved quickly westward and strengthened
under favorable conditions. It made landfall as a hurricane on
northeastern Mexico on August 16. The storm's low-level circulation
center dissipated by the next day. However, the storm's mid-level
circulation persisted for another three days, emerging into the Pacific
and moving northwestward over Baja California, before dissipating on
August 20. Two people were killed in northeastern Mexico when their
vehicle was swept away by floodwaters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Erika_%282003%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
Napoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after
the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Griessie>
1918:
National Guards and Sokol volunteers protested in Zagreb,
leading to an armed clash with regiments of the Home Guard and former
Common Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_protest_in_Zagreb>
1933:
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States
officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1958:
Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, opened to the
public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_By-pass>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fenny:
1. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline
wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of
land: containing a fen or fens.
2. Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
3. (obsolete, also figurative) Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fenny>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the
child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child
"innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried
deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that
innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that
laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily
ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
--Walt Disney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney>
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