The 1980 Kalamazoo tornado was a natural disaster in Michigan in the United States on May 13, 1980.
Tuesday, May 13, 1980 began with temperatures in the upper 50s with fog. By 3:00 p.m., A warm front lifted north of the city, and thunderstorms began developing later that afternoon. By 3:30 p.m., A thunderstorm rapidly intensified, so the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning.
The first tornado began around 3:40 p.m. and dissipated at 3:50 p.m. The first tornado did not cause any deaths but injured 25 people. Shortly after the first tornado dissipated, a supercell thunderstorm caused a new tornado to form as it was moving into Kalamazoo. The first images were captured by two news reporters in the city, where shortly thereafter caused its first fatality. As the tornado moved into downtown, an employee at a local electronics store captured it. The tornado could be seen moving southeast, damaging homes and uprooting trees as it moved into downtown. As the employee ran to the basement, the tornado killed three more people, two at Gilmore's Apartment Store and a motorcyclist struck by a falling tree. The tornado killed one more person in Constock Township before dissipating.
This tornado was responsible for 5 deaths and 79 injuries, and $50,000,000 worth of property damage. It also left 1,200 without homes.
Poldy Bird
Poldy Bird (16 December 1941 – 1 June 2018) was an Argentinian writer and poet. She made poems and collaborations in several newspapers of Argentina and the world. She was born in Paraná, in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. She was raised in Buenos Aires. Among her most famous texts are "Cuentos para Verónica" (in honor of her first daughter), "Cuentos para leer sin rimel", "Nuevos cuentos para Verónica" and "Cuentos con niebla".
Bird died at her home in Buenos Aires on 1 June 2018 at the age of 76.
Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway OA (9 October 1934 – 1 June 2018) was an Australian-American author. She was born in Hillston, New South Wales.
Conway was known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, "The Road from Coorain". She was also Smith College's first female president, from 1975 to 1985, and served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. In 2013, she received a 2012 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.
Conway died on 1 June 2018 at her home in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 83.
Hilmar Hoffmann
Hilmar Hoffmann (25 August 1925 – 1 June 2018) was a German cultural and movie historian. He was born in Bremen, Germany. Between 1970 and 1990 he was a City Councillor in Frankfurt am Main, and initiated the promotion of free groups in urban culture. From 1993 to 2001 he was president of the Goethe-Institut (Munich). He taught movie theory and cultural politics at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Hoffmann died in Frankfurt, Germany on 1 June 2018 of a stroke at the age of 92.
Andrée Lachapelle
Andrée Lachapelle OC, CQ (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was known for her roles in "Léolo", "Cap Tourmente", "Route 132", "The Last Escape" and "Don't Let the Angels Fall".
In 1985, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.
On November 21, 2019, Lachapelle, who had cancer, died by assisted suicide at a Montreal hospital. She was 88 years old.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Fredericksburg () is the seat of Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 10,530.
Macon, Mississippi
Macon is a city in Noxubee County, Mississippi along the Noxubee River. The population was 2,461 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Noxubee County.
Nakahara Prize
The Nakahara Prize is an award from the Japanese Economic Association. It is given every year since 1995. The prize is for Japanese economists younger than 45 years old. They get the prize because their work has become well-known internationally. The prize is named after its sponsor Nobuyuki Nakahara. The purpose of the prize is to encourage young economists to publish excellent papers and books internationally. In 2016, Sagiri Kitao was the first woman to win the prize.
Hitotsubashi University
Hitotsubashi University has about 4,500 undergraduate students and 2,100 postgraduate students. There are about 630 faculty members.
Parentheses show how many students enter in a year.
Hitotsubashi University is a very hard school to enter. So there are many textbooks for their entrance exams. One Japanese publisher has made a 15-year collection of their English tests. Another publisher made a 50-year collection of their mathematics exam.
Sagiri Kitao
Kitao was born on 1972 , in Saitama, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University in 1996. She worked for Goldman Sachs for several years.
She earned a M.P.A./I.D. (Master in Public Administration/International Development) from Harvard Kennedy School in 2001. She received a Ph.D. from New York University in 2007.
Kitao was an assistant professor at University of Southern California (2007-2009). Next, she was an associate professor at City University of New York (2011-2015). She is now a professor at University of Tokyo.
She won the Nakahara Prize for young Japanese economists in 2016. She is the first woman to win the prize.
Swann VR
Swann VR is a spatial memory training tool for Alzheimer's disease. It uses virtual reality. Users are given a map with objects placed in it, and they are to memorize it and find the items within the immersive environment. It was created by Taegh Sokhey a pharmaceutical consultant and Northwestern University graduate. The application is designed to work with Oculus Rift and Rift S.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethologist. He was the founder of the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior. He was born in Vienna.
In 1970 he became Professor for Zoology at the University of Munich. From 1975 to 2018, he was the head of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Department of Human Ethology in Andechs, Germany. He was the co-founder and first president of the International Society for Human Ethology.
From 1992 until his death, he was Honorary Director of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna.
For many years he dived with Hans Hass on his diving boat "Xarifa".
Eibl-Eibesfeldt died on 2 June 2018 in Vienna at the age of 89.
Life of the Party (movie)
Life of the Party is a 2018 American comedy movie directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone and Melissa McCarthy. It is the third movie directed by Falcone and co-written by the pair, following "Tammy" (2014) and "The Boss" (2016).
The movie, starring McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen, Matt Walsh, Debby Ryan, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis, Stephen Root, and Jacki Weaver.
It is about a newly divorced mother who returns to college to complete her degree, and ends up bonding with her daughter's friends.
It is produced by On the Day Productions and New Line Cinema. The movie was released on May 11, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It has made $49 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress. She is known for playing Britta Perry on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen comedy series "Community", Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix series "Love", and "The Powerpuff Girls".