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October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) ... 1940 – Rosny Smarth, Haitian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2025)
The island's name derives from the turtle-like shape of the island. Île à Vache (Cow Island) is a small and lush island located off southwestern of Haiti with a total area is 52 km 2. Les Cayemites, a pair of islands located in the Gulf of Gonâve off the coast of southwest Hispaniola. It has a combined area of 45 km 2.
Climate is tropical with some variation depending on altitude. The average high temperature in Thomassin is 20.3 °C (68.54 °F). August being the warmest month with an average of 21.9 °C (71.42 °F).
Weather forecasters expect the storm to impact up to 2.7 million people before veering northwest toward the Chinese coast on October 21. (Media Corp Press Today Online), (CNN via KCCI), (The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) A natural gas explosion damages several buildings and injures eight people in downtown Portland, Oregon.
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On October 10, Hazel slowed in the central Caribbean and turned sharply to the north-northeast toward Hispaniola, [3] steered by an upper-level low. [5] At 09:00 UTC on October 12, the hurricane made landfall near Chardonnières along the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. There were ...
The U.S. has routinely sent thousands of troops to Haiti, intervened in its government and supported unpopular leaders like Henry. “What you have over the last 20 years is the consistent ...
Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t ɑː v /) was the second most destructive tropical cyclone of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.