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The 1998 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season with seven tropical cyclones directly affecting land. The first tropical cyclone developed on June 11, which was about ten days later than the normal start of the season. The final storm of the year, Hurricane Madeline (pictured), dissipated on October 20. Storm activity in the Central Pacific Ocean was low, with just one tropical depression forming in the basin. Two tropical cyclones from the Eastern Pacific, Darby and Estelle, also entered the central Pacific, with the former entering as a hurricane. The season produced 13 named storms, which was slightly below the average of 16 named storms per season. However, the total of nine hurricanes during the season was equal to the average, and the total of six major hurricanes surpassed the average. The most notable tropical cyclone of the year was Hurricane Isis which killed fourteen people when it made landfall on southern Baja California and coastal Sinaloa in Mexico. Tropical Storm Javier also made landfall on Mexico and a tropical cyclone, Hurricane Lester, affected Central America, causing two deaths in Guatemala. (Full article...)

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A bus fire in Xiamen, China, kills 47 people, including the suspected arsonist.

The US National Security Agency's PRISM program is revealed as using surveillance of user data from major technology companies.

Following a conviction on charges of corruption, former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša (pictured) is sentenced to two years in prison.

The oldest known primate species, Archicebus achilles, 55 million years old, is described from a fossil discovered in China.

In the Syrian civil war, government forces retake the strategic town of al-Qusayr.

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June 11

1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.

1847 – Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.

1956 – The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries.

1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance (pictured) to an auditorium.

1963 – Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.

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The Franz Josef Glacier is found in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park and descends from New Zealand's Southern Alps to 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. The glacier exhibits a cyclic pattern of advance and retreat. By mid-2010, its latest cycle of advance had ended; it is currently in a state of retreat.

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