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Tropical Depression Ten was a precursor of Hurricane Katrina during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on August 13 from a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa, but the depression faced strong wind shear and remained weak. By August 14, it no longer met the criteria for a tropical cyclone, and the National Hurricane Center issued their final advisory on it. Moving westward, the storm produced occasional bursts of atmospheric convection. By August 18, only a remnant mid-level circulation persisted. This merged with a second tropical wave on August 23 to form Tropical Depression Twelve, which grew into Katrina, the third most intense tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in the United States. Katrina was the costliest US disaster until Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, causing severe destruction along the Gulf Coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to storm surge and levee failure. At least 1,245 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods. (Full article...)

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Hualien earthquake damage

The Winter Olympics open in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
An earthquake strikes Hualien, Taiwan, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 260 others (President Tsai Ing-wen surveying damage pictured).
The SpaceX launch vehicle Falcon Heavy makes its maiden flight, carrying Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload.
In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.
Archaeologists announce the discovery using LiDAR of approximately 60,000 Mayan structures in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala.

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February 10

The fire at Namdaemun in 2008

1355 – A tavern dispute between Oxford University students and townsfolk turned into a riot that left about 90 people dead.
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps led by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev.
1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
1984 – Kenyan security forces massacred approximately 5,000 ethnic Somalis at the Wagalla Airstrip in Wajir County, Kenya.
2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).

Ary Scheffer (b. 1795) · Harold Macmillan (b. 1894) · Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)

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The Three Musicians is an oil painting by the Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velázquez (1599–1660). One of his earliest works, the painting depicts three young men around a dinner table playing music. It is painted in chiaroscuro, a Baroque technique that uses the contrast between light and darkness to achieve a sense of volume. The work is now held at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany.

Painting: Diego Velázquez

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