Historical Hurricane Tracks

Did you see the Download button in the upper-right corner? http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ibtracs/index.php?name=wmo-data

If you click on the download link in the top right it takes you to this page which allows the download of data in a number of formats, including csv, from which you can parse the data into a shapefile using the gis of your choice (or python).

As of 2018-09-25 the links listed above all point to 404 errors. I have found downloadable (FGDB format) historic tracks (1900-2013) at:

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/

Search for the phrase "Tropical Cyclone Storm Segments", then click the Download button, which takes you to an ftp site:

ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/TropicalCycloneExposure.zip