[Daily article] November 1: Typhoon Gay (1989)

Typhoon Gay was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused more
than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in
November 1989. The worst typhoon to affect the Malay Peninsula in
35 years, Gay rapidly intensified from a monsoon trough, and on
3 November became the first typhoon since 1891 to make landfall in
Thailand. It re-emerged into the Bay of Bengal and reorganized as it
approached southeastern India. The typhoon moved ashore near Kavali,
Andhra Pradesh, and dissipated over Maharashtra early on 10 November.
The typhoon's rapid development took seafarers by surprise, leading to
275 offshore fatalities. Across the Malay Peninsula, 588 people died
from various storm-related incidents and several towns were destroyed.
Losses throughout Thailand totaled ฿11 billion (US$497 million). In
India, Gay damaged or destroyed about 20,000 homes in Andhra Pradesh.
It left 100,000 people homeless, caused 69 deaths, and was responsible
for ₹410 million (US$25.3 million) in damage.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Gay_%281989%29>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1503:

Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name
Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1503_papal_conclave>

1914:

World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian
Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Australian_Imperial_Force>

1950:

Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate U.S.
president Harry S. Truman.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

cherub:
1. (biblical) A winged creature attending on God, described by Pseudo-
Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest
order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a
lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in
later texts.
2. An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a
winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
3. (figurative) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly
angelic or innocent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cherub>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  I got my break — big break — when I was five years old. And
it's taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I
learned to read. It's that simple, and it's that profound. I left school
at thirteen, I didn't have a formal education, and I believe I would
not be standing here tonight, without the books, the plays — the
scripts. It's been a long journey from Fountainbridge to this evening,
with you all. Though my feet are tired, my heart is not.  
--Sean Connery
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sean_Connery>

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