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Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season. A destructive and widespread storm, Carmen originated as a tropical disturbance that traveled westward from Africa, spawning a tropical depression east of the Lesser Antilles on August 29. Moving through the Caribbean Sea, it quickly strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula. It turned north into the Gulf of Mexico, re-intensified, and made a second landfall in the marshland of southern Louisiana, dissipating over eastern Texas on September 10. Tropical cyclone watches and warnings had been issued for the storm, and around 100,000 residents left their homes and sought shelter. Damage was lighter than first feared, but the sugar industry suffered substantial losses. The hurricane killed 8 people and caused damage valued at $162 million. The name Carmen was retired from the list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names in 1975. (Full article...)

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Ursine tree-kangaroo by John Gould

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... that Oleta Crain, one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women?
... that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble, France?
... that Simon Dale lived mainly in the kitchen and one bedroom of his 50-room Hopton Heath mansion, where he was found bludgeoned to death?
... that the first public meeting of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania was chaired by a bishop and drew a crowd of more than 500 people?
... that professional cyclist Marcel Wüst had to end his road bicycle racing career after an accident left him blind in one eye?
... that before becoming a prehistorian, Hans-Jürgen Häßler lived in a refugee camp and trained as a plumber?
... that in Sean Penn's satirical novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, Honey advocates the assassination of the US President, "Mr. Landlord", who resembles Donald Trump?

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Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in

In Spanish football, FC Barcelona win La Liga.
At the inter-Korean summit at the Peace House in Panmunjom, the leaders of North and South Korea (pictured) agree to formally end the Korean War later this year.
American comedian Bill Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault in a retrial of a case that was closed as a mistrial in 2017.
Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Kim Wall.
Serzh Sargsyan resigns as Prime Minister of Armenia, following large-scale protests.

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May 3: Lag BaOmer (Judaism, 2018); National Day of Prayer in the United States (2018)

Benty Grange helmet

1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries.
1848 – The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, was released.
1920 – Relying on the 11th Soviet Red Army operating in neighboring Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
1999 – A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth (301 ±20 mph, or 484 ±32 km/h) in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, U.S.

Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1621) · Richard D'Oyly Carte (b. 1844) · Sugar Ray Robinson (b. 1921)

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The Lute Player is a painting completed by Orazio Gentileschi c. 1612–1615. It depicts a young woman in a golden dress with a lute, turned away from the observer, concentrating her attention on the nineteen-stringed instrument and listening intently to a note. The work, which exhibits influences from Caravaggio, has been variously identified as a genre painting, an allegory of hearing, and as a portrait of the goddess Harmonia. The Lute Player is now held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Painting: Orazio Gentileschi

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