Vicente at peak intensity on October 20

Tropical Storm Vicente was a small tropical cyclone that made landfall as a tropical depression in the Mexican state of Michoacán on October 23, 2018, causing deadly mudslides. The 21st named storm of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, it originated from a tropical wave that traveled westward from Africa's western coast across the Atlantic and entered the Eastern Pacific on October 17. The disturbance formed into a tropical depression early on October 19 and became Tropical Storm Vicente later that day. It peaked on October 20 with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1,002 mbar (29.59 inHg). After making landfall near Playa Azul on October 23, Vicente quickly lost organization and dissipated a few hours later. The storm caused torrential rainfall in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Guerrero, and Colima; the rainfall exceeded 12 inches (300 mm) in Oaxaca. The storm left 16 people dead. (This article is part of a featured topic: 2018 Pacific hurricane season.)

Chris Kreider

• ... that Chris Kreider (pictured) scored his first five NHL goals before ever playing a regular season game?
• ... that Der Bialistoker Shtern's unique spelling policy combined standard Soviet Yiddish orthography with the traditional final forms of Hebrew letters?
• ... that Geoff Bent, one of Manchester United's Busby Babes, saved a child from drowning in a canal?
• ... that A&E Networks filed a lawsuit against the producers of On Patrol: Live, alleging that it was a "blatant rip-off" of their show Live PD?
• ... that Zakir Husain was the first Muslim and the first governor of a state to be elected President of India?
• ... that the 1887 novel Bellona's Husband: A Romance by William James Roe "may be the earliest example of the time in reverse tale presented in full-fledged narrative form"?
• ... that the Republican Palace Museum in Khartoum was originally a cathedral?
• ... that after playing football for three different high schools, Matt Landers played for three different colleges?

Kakhovka Dam in 2006

• In Ukraine, the Kakhovka Dam (pictured) is breached, causing flooding and prompting mass evacuations.
• At least 275 people are killed and over 1,175 others injured in a collision involving three trains in Balasore, India.
• In cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with the Chennai Super Kings defeating the Gujarat Titans in the final.
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is re-elected President of Turkey in a runoff.
• In auto racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500.

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Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia

• 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia (pictured), who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
• 1832 – The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
• 1892 – Homer Plessy, an "octoroon" from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
• 1998 – Three white supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.