• 1963: Freezing rain, followed by blizzard conditions, impacted much of western and northern South Dakota. Icing and strong winds knocked down many utility poles and lines. The heaviest snow fell near the Black Hills and exceeded 12 inches. Rapid City alone spent $14,000 for snow removal; quite possibly, at its time, the most spent at once since the Blizzard of 1949.
• 1919: A family of tornadoes of up to F4 strength struck along a 45 mile long path from Issaquena County to Sunflower County in western Mississippi. Though 24 people are known to have been killed, the local newspapers concentrated on the deaths of the plantation owners and paid less attention to the tenant workers who may have died.
• 1942: One-fourth of Lacon, IL was destroyed by an F5 (estimated) tornado. Many of the 60 damaged homes were completely swept away, and debris was found 25 miles distant. The tornado killed eight people along its 30 mile long path northwest and north of Peoria. It was part of a huge outbreak that killed 152 people across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
• 1986: A small tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.
• 2004: Heavy rainfall began yesterday on La Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. The rainfall finally ended today and produced the current world record for a one day rainfall total of 73.6 inches.