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Map of the storm's track
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon spanned thirteen days and included
six landfalls. The hurricane formed near Panama in the southwestern Caribbean on
November 9, 1994. As a tropical depression it brushed Nicaragua and spent several
days in the waters off the country's coast. Heading north and then northwest,
Gordon made two more landfalls, on eastern Jamaica and eastern Cuba, while
delivering tremendous rains to western Hispaniola. After it made its fourth
landfall crossing the Florida Keys, it spent a few days as an unusual hybrid of a
tropical and a subtropical system in the Gulf of Mexico. It reclaimed its fully
tropical form and made another landfall, across the Florida peninsula, and
continued into the Atlantic Ocean, where it strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane.
It briefly wandered close to North Carolina, but then headed south, weakening into
a minor tropical storm before its final landfall on Florida's east coast. (Full
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Tony Appleton in 2010
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the birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge?
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would make them immune to bullets?
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... that despite gathering an emperor, six kings, and numerous princes at the
Conference of Dresden, Napoleon was largely preoccupied with planning his invasion
of Russia?
... that Juliet Appiah is the first Ghanaian police officer to be awarded a FIFA
refereeing badge?
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in the US often have to use "coping strategies that gays and lesbians have used in
the military and other inhospitable work environments"?
... that Tom Hom was the first non-Caucasian elected to the San Diego City Council?
... that in Philippine mythology, anito spirits can harm human beings by "greeting"
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Janez Janša
Janez Janša
The Slovenian Democratic Party, led by Janez Janša (pictured), wins the most seats
in the parliamentary election.
Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts, killing more than 80 people.
Giuseppe Conte becomes Prime Minister of Italy, leading a coalition government
after protracted negotiations.
Pedro Sánchez becomes Prime Minister of Spain after Mariano Rajoy loses a vote of
no confidence.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Real Madrid
defeating Liverpool in the final to win their third consecutive title.
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June 7

Mariano Moreno
Mariano Moreno
1692 – An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea
level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
1788 – Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event
sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
1810 – Journalist Mariano Moreno (pictured) published Argentina's first newspaper,
the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dikes
holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese
forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000 people.
1998 – Three white supremacists murdered African American James Byrd Jr. by
chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in
Jasper, Texas.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (b. 1757) · Joseph von Fraunhofer (d.
1826) · Prince (b. 1958)

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Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake is an 1889 oil on wood painting by French artist
Paul Gauguin, which represents his late Brittany period in the fishing village of
Le Pouldu in northwestern France. It shows Gauguin against a red background with a
halo above his head and apples hanging beside him as he holds a snake in his hand
while plants or flowers appear in the foreground. The religious symbolism and the
stylistic influence of Japanese wood-block prints and cloisonnism are apparent. The
work is one of more than 40 self-portraits he completed. It is held at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Painting: Paul Gauguin

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