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Hurricane Vince on October 9, 2005

Hurricane Vince was an unusual hurricane that developed in the northeastern Atlantic basin. Forming in October during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the waters over which it developed were considered too cold for tropical development. Vince was the twentieth named tropical cyclone and twelfth hurricane of the extremely active season. Vince developed from an extratropical system on October 8, becoming a subtropical storm southeast of the Azores. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) did not officially name the storm until the next day, shortly before Vince became a hurricane. The storm weakened at sea and, on October 11, made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula as a tropical depression. Vince was the first tropical system to do so since the 1842 Spain hurricane. It dissipated over Spain, bringing much needed rain to the region, and its remnants passed into the Mediterranean Sea. (more...)

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    John Atta Mills

  • The Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics is held in London.
  • At least 58 people are killed and 200,000 displaced in ethnic violence between Bodos and immigrant Muslims in Assam, India.
  • At least 42 people are killed in clashes between rebels and Tajik government troops in Gorno-Badakhshan.
  • Ghanaian President John Atta Mills (pictured) dies at the age of 68 and is succeeded by Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
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  • On this day...

    July 28: World Hepatitis Day; Tisha B'Av begins at sunset (Judaism, 2012); Independence Day in Peru (1821)

    Members of the "Bonus Army" in front of the US Capitol building

  • 1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
  • 1932U.S. President Herbert Hoover ordered the eviction of the "Bonus Army"—a group of veterans who were occupying government property (pictured) to demand immediate payment for money owed.
  • 1935 – The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber aircraft, which dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II, made its first flight.
  • 1976An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale, one of the deadliest in history, flattened Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 people.
  • 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, US.
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    St. Moritz, Switzerland

    View of St. Moritz in Switzerland and its lake, as seen from the hiking trail to Celerina/Schlarigna. The town, which has existed since at least the 12th century, is named after Saint Maurice, the patron saint of soldiers. St. Moritz was the host of the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics, and has hosted championships for other winter sports as well as sailing and windsurfing competitions.

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