Hurricane Flora

Think about how wild this chain of events is.

You have the Cuban Missile Crisis and Hurricane Flora, which devastated the Cuban crop operating in the background as these massive historical events.

But on the ground, for a local Jamaican farmer, it translates to local thugs burning their sugarcane fields in the middle of the night.

The real-world impact is brutal.

While the song Imagine leads one to long for a world where everyone gets along and we all live in peace and harmony, the actual lyrics promote socialism and communism of the type Chairman Mao started in China.

This week in 1963, Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 people in Cuba and Haiti.

Climate change! Said no one.

This week in 1979, the United States returned sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

And then Vice President Lyndon Johnson took over the presidency.

Hurricane Flora, a Category 4 storm, devastated the Caribbean.

For a time, the winds were in excess of 170 mph, and though she did so much damage to so many areas all around there, she struck eastern Cuba on October 4th and stalled for nearly four days, dropping absolutely historic amounts of rain before moving into the Atlantic and becoming an extra-tropical storm on October 12th.

The Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, was launched in the Vostok 6 spacecraft.