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Hurricane Irene was a long-lived tropical cyclone of Joey Logano

the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. After forming
near Cape Verde on August 4, it crossed the Atlantic,  In U.S. stock car racing, Joey Logano
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an extratropical cyclone southeast of Newfoundland. Series.
 The wreck of Argentinian submarine
Irene persisted for 14 days as a tropical system,
San Juan, which disappeared in
longer than any other storm of the 2005 season. It
November 2017, is found in the South
was the ninth named storm and fourth hurricane of
Atlantic.
what became the most active Atlantic hurricane
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season since record-keeping began. Irene proved to
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there were initial fears of a landfall in the United definitions for the units kilogram,
States, but Irene never approached land and caused no ampere, kelvin and mole.
recorded damage. One person died in Long Beach,
New York, from swells up to 8 feet (2.4 m) and Ongoing:
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 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After

capturing the city of Port Arthur, the
Constantin Cantacuzino around 1820 Japanese Second Army began a
massacre of the residents of the city—
 ... that when Constantin Cantacuzino (pictured) soldiers and civilians.
was made Caimacam of Wallachia, his own son  1918 – Polish troops and civilians
reportedly shouted in protest? began a three-day pogrom against
 ... that the Deccan Chargers, winners of the 2009 Jews and Christians in Lwów (now Lviv,
Indian Premier League, finished last in the league Ukraine).
stage in the previous season with just two wins in  1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton
fourteen matches? became the first woman to serve in the
 ... that before becoming a Yad Vashem historian, United States Senate, albeit for only
Shmuel Krakowski worked for Polish communist one day.
intelligence and security organizations?  1977 – "God Defend New Zealand"
 ... that viewers have watched 1.5 billion minutes (audio featured) became New
of BuzzFeed's Worth It in 2018 alone? Zealand's second national anthem, on
 ... that a letter authored by Ali, the first Shia equal standing with "God Save the
Imam, to Malik al-Ashtar, governor of Egypt, Queen", which had been the
includes a model for governing based on justice traditional anthem since 1840.
for every place and every time?  2012 – A remote-controlled bomb
 ... that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel,
the National Memory Institute, despite having injuring at least 28 people on board.
blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945
Topoľčany pogrom? Anne de Xainctonge (b. 1567) ·
 ... that the sea hedgehog hydroid is predated by Alexander Berkman (b. 1870) · Leopold
the nudibranch Zelentia pustulata, which feeds Berchtold (d. 1942)
on it and winds egg coils around its branches?
 ... that Lukas Radovich believed his audition for More anniversaries:
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