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Flooding on the Humber River

Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm was named by the US Weather Bureau on October 5. In Haiti, 40% of the coffee trees and 50% of the cacao crop were lost, and at least 400 people were killed. Hazel struck North Carolina near Calabash on October 15 as a Category 4 hurricane. It destroyed most of the waterfront dwellings near its point of impact, including about 80% of those in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Heading north along the Atlantic coast of the United States, it caused $281 million in damage and 95 fatalities. Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people. Its effects were unprecedented in and around Toronto, due to a combination of heavy rainfall during the preceding weeks, the storm's unexpected retention of power and a lack of experience in dealing with tropical storms. Rivers and streams overflowed, causing over C$135 million of damage. The storm's name was later retired from use for North Atlantic hurricanes. (Full article...)

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Juvenile European pilchards

... that overfishing of European pilchard (pictured) and anchovy in the Adriatic Sea can cause dramatic changes in the ecosystem?
... that tenor Daniel Behle had a single day to learn rarely performed romantic duets when he stepped in at short notice for a 2018 Rheingau Musik Festival concert with Annette Dasch?
... that Our Lady of Pompeii in New York City was founded in 1892 as a church for Italian immigrants?
... that during his time in Slovakia to play professional basketball, J. R. Cadot was assaulted and followed to the hospital by a racist mob?
... that the 1980s-themed cover for Muse's album Simulation Theory was made by Stranger Things artist Kyle Lambert?
... that Lucius Neratius Marcellus was involved in the establishment of the defensive line that later became Hadrian's Wall?
... that during World War II, the United States Lake Survey published 370 tons of maps including 8,109 different charts and maps, distributing over 9 million items to the armed forces?
... that Sam Frost received death threats after her Home and Away character Jasmine Delaney's first scenes were aired?

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Nadia Murad

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad (pictured) are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Frances Arnold for her work on directed evolution of enzymes and to George Smith and Greg Winter for their work on phage display of peptides and antibodies.
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on laser science.
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on cancer immunotherapy.

On this day

October 5

Women's March on Versailles

1789 – French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies marched (pictured) on the royal palace at Versailles.
1869 – During construction of the Hennepin Island tunnel in St. Anthony, Minnesota (now Minneapolis), U.S., the Mississippi River broke through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony Falls.
1930 – The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its maiden overseas flight, killing 48 passengers and crew.
1970 – Members of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped British diplomat James Cross, sparking the October Crisis in Montreal.
1986 – Eugene Hasenfus's plane was shot down by Nicaraguan forces while carrying weapons to the Contra rebels on behalf of the U.S. government; he was subsequently captured, leading to an international controversy.

Giovanni Visconti (d. 1354) · Paul Fleming (b. 1609) · Eduardo Duhalde (b. 1941)

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Kumar Sangakkara

Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has made centuries on 38 and 25 occasions in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches respectively. Sangakkara is a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He scored his maiden Test century in 2001, against India, and his first double-century during the 2002 Asian Test Championship final against Pakistan. Sangakkara's highest score in Test cricket is 319, which he scored against Bangladesh in 2014. During his innings of 287 against South Africa in 2006, he and Mahela Jayawardene set a new world record of 624 runs for the highest partnership for any wicket in Test or first-class cricket. He made his ODI debut in July 2000 against Pakistan, and his first century in this format was against the same team during the 2003 Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup. His highest ODI score of 169 was made against South Africa at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Full list...)

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Chester A. Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885. Born in Vermont and raised in upstate New York, Arthur practiced law in New York City before serving as a quartermaster general in the Civil War. He became active in the Republican party after the war, was elected vice president on the ticket of President James A. Garfield, and assumed the presidency upon Garfield's assassination six months into his presidency. He effected a reform of the civil service during his presidency, as well as navy reform and an act to prohibit immigration by Chinese laborers and deny citizenship to those already in the US. Arthur did not seek a second term due to poor health.

Engraving: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restoration: Andrew Shiva

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