1982: Heavy rain pushed the Bad River over the banks at Fort Pierre. One house four miles outside of Fort Pierre was sandbagged. Rainfall amount of 3.83 inches was recorded in Pierre.

1686: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer, was born.

1886: At 10:00 pm, after having already caused one death in Indiana, an F4 tornado hit Celina, OH, leaving 5 more dead and 20 injured. Then at 11:30 pm, an F3 tornado killed 11 and injured 25 as it destroyed much of Dunkirk and Cary, OH.

1923: Farms were swept off the earth by what was probably an F5 tornado south of Lubbock, TX. A man and his three sons were among the 23 fatalities. The damage path was up to a mile and a half wide.

1995: At Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, winds were recorded reaching 136 mph.