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The year was 1778; his landfall was the northerly island of Kauai; and the name he gave his new discovery was the Sandwich Islands (after the Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich).
Thousands of residents along the southeastern coast of Texas fled in advance of the hurricane, which lost strength Sunday afternoon and made landfall in a sparsely populated area south of Corpus Christi and north of Brownsville.
This tiny patch of land, 63 sq miles in area, is at the center of a momentous turning point in history, for it was here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World, on 12 October 1492.
USA Today and the Washington Post lead with the imminent landfall of Hurricane Floyd somewhere along the southeastern U.S. coast.
Americans have followed all this obsessively, with weather Web sites reporting record traffic in the days before Floyd's landfall.