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The effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware were compounded by flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Henri days before and resulted in a presidential disaster declaration for the U.S. state. Hurricane Isabel formed on September 6, 2003, in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and reached recorded peak winds of 165 mph (265 km/h) on September 11. It made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with recorded winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) on September 18. It quickly weakened over land and became extratropical over Pennsylvania the next day. Roughly six million people were left without electric service in the eastern United States from its strong winds. Sixteen deaths in seven states were directly related to the hurricane, with 35 deaths in six states and one Canadian province indirectly related, though none in Delaware. Overall damage totalled about $5.5 billion, of which $40 million was associated with Delaware. (Full article...)

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Joseph J. Himmel

... that Joseph J. Himmel (pictured), once president of Georgetown University, lived out his final years as a recluse in the university's archives?
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... that Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala, and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
... that radio station KSUN in Bisbee, Arizona, sold its call letters to a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
... that when Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of Tsinghua University, the future Chinese president Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
... that the father of athlete Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
... that Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico?
... that a Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?

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Robert Mugabe

Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
A fire aboard a charter boat near Santa Cruz Island in California leaves at least thirty-three people dead and one other missing.
Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 20 people.
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has detected more than 80,000 wildfires in the country since January, at least 40,000 of which have occurred in the Amazon rainforest.

On this day

September 6: Hosseini infancy conference (Shia Islam, 2019); Defence Day in Pakistan (1965)

Two of the aircraft hijacked by the PFLP

1901 – U.S. president William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners, landing two of them (pictured) at Dawson's Field in Zarqa, Jordan, and one in Beirut, with the last hijacking attempt foiled.
1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect.
2007 – The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of Syria.

Jessie Willcox Smith (b. 1863) · Sylvester (b. 1947) · Geert Wilders (b. 1963)

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Cyclone Gonu

Sixty known tropical cyclones have affected the Arabian Peninsula, a peninsula between the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea,and the Persian Gulf. The hurricanes primarily affected Yemen and Oman. Most of the tropical cyclones originated in the Arabian Sea, the portion of the Indian Ocean north of the equator and west of India. The remainder formed in the Bay of Bengal off India's east coast. Collectively, the 60 storms have caused at least US$8.3 billion in damage and 1,693 deaths. The strongest and most damaging cyclone was Cyclone Gonu (pictured), which caused US$4 billion in damage and 50 fatalities when it struck Oman in 2007. Tropical cyclone damage in the Arabian Peninsula is chiefly due to flooding. (Full list...)

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Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author. She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate for world peace. She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder for the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy, and is known by many as the first woman "public philosopher in the history of the United States".

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