1965: A hard freeze hit most of Minnesota in the early morning causing the loss of millions of bushels of corn and soybeans. Some temperatures fell below 20 degrees far north in the state.

1981: A tornado touched down in the early morning hours several times east of Vermillion. Two barns received extensive damage.

1881: Japan's deadliest tornado occurred when 16 people were killed at Miyazaki, near the southern tip of the country. The elementary school was destroyed.

1898: A school teacher saved 40 children from death in Merritton, Ontario, when she spotted an approaching tornado and led her students to a safe corner. Unfortunately, falling debris killed one of the children and injured several others.

1955: The U.S. Navy Neptune P2V-3W plane had a mission when it took off in the morning: obtain observations in Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean. After their 8:30 a.m. report, no other communication was ever received from them again. No trace of the plane or of the crew was ever found.

1959: The passage of Typhoon Vera over Japan was the country's greatest storm disaster to that date. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. The typhoon dealt a staggering blow to the economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides.