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On This Day In Weather History; Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history
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April 12th is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of the year.

1927 – USA: A tornado wiped out the town of Rock Springs, TX, killing 72 persons and causing 1.2 million dollars damage.
1934 – USA: Fastest recorded with an anemometer outside of a tropical cyclone: 372 km/h (231 mph) sustained 1-minute average; Mount Washington, New Hampshire, April 12, 1934
1961 (50th Anniversary) – RUSSIA: Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, experienced the weightlessness of space for 108 minutes. He orbited the Earth once before making a safe landing. The Russians rocketed Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space. His ship, Vostok I, was guided entirely from the ground.
1966 - Major Storm at sea takes 8 lives when the cruise ship Michelangelo was battered by 45ft waves during a severe north Atlantic storm
1981 – SPACE: The first space shuttle, Columbia, carrying astronauts Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight. It was designated STS-1 (space transportation system)
1984 – SPACE: Challenger astronauts made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning a healthy Solar Max satellite to space. The orbiting sun watcher had been circling the Earth for three years with all circuits dead before repairs were made.
1997 – USA: In North Dakota, the Red River was at its highest level in 150 years -- more than 20 feet above flood stage after rain and snow that began the previous month
1998 – SLOVENIA: An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1997 – IRELAND: Irish farmers face severe drought problems this summer due to record dry weather in recent months, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association warned
1998 – SIERRA LEONE: Up to 50 people fleeing fighting in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown drowned during bad weather in a boat accident off the West African country
2001 – IRELAND: Ted Sweeney, the weather forecaster instrumental in saving the D Day landings from disaster, dies in his native Blacksod near Belmullet in Co Mayo. In 1944, Ted Sweeney claims a special place in world history by filing a famous weather report which delays the D Day landings in Normandy for 24 hours
2002 – AFGHANISTAN: An earthquake hit northern Afghanistan and at least 59 people were killed, mostly in Doabi.
2003 – IRELAND: Europe's newest marine research ship, the €31 million RV Celtic Explorer was commissioned in Galway docks
2008 – CHILE: The reservoir at the Laja dam south of Santiago gauges Chile's predicament: it has been less than half full since August. Chile is in the grip of the most damaging drought in a century
2010 – ITALY: A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
2010 – IRELAND: Northern Lights are visible along the north Ulster coastline during a geomagnetic storm
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13 Apr 2006. A man checks a public phone placed at the flooded promenade on the Sava river bank in Belgrade. Water levels of Serbian rivers, especialy Danube, continued to rise and caused a state of emergency in the northern and central regions of the country most affected by the flooding.

April 13th is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of the year.

837 – SPACE: Best view of Halley’s Comet in 2000 years.
1360 – FRANCE/ENGLAND: On so-called “Black Monday” in 1360, a hail storm kills an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France. The storm and the devastation it caused also played a part in the Hundred Years’ War between England and France.
1875 – USA: New York City, NY picked up ten inches of snow during a spring storm.
1905 – SPACE: Bruno Rossi was born. Rossi was an Italian-American physicist who pioneered cosmic ray research and x-ray astronomy. He discovered the majority of cosmic rays are made up of positively charged particles.
1928 – IRELAND/CANADA: Irish aviation pioneer James Fitzmaurice and his colleagues on the Bremen crash landed in the St. Lawrence Estuary to achieve the first east to west direct crossing of the North Atlantic by a heavier than air machine. Fitzmaurice later recalled the moment he neared the coast of Canada: “We soon realised that what we thought was a mountain range was in fact a very dangerous jet black bank of cloud, reaching to over 20,000 feet. It was obviously of the ice forming type”.
1933 – NEPAL: The first flight over Mount Everest was completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1955 – USA: 20.33″ (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record).
1960 – SPACE: The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth’s orbit.
1970 –SPACE: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst: “Houston, we’ve got a problem!” The incident preventing a planned moon landing. The three-man crew managed to return safely.
1992 – USA: The Great Chicago Flood took place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River.
1992 – GERMANY/HOLLAND: An earthquake rocked Germany and the Netherlands.
1998 – IRELAND: Showers of hail, sleet and snow fall across the country
1998 – BRITAIN: Insurance companies brace themselves for a £500 million payout on damage by torrential rain and floods across Britain. Arriving in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the deputy prime minister, Mr John Prescott, describes the floods as the worst for 150 years.
2000 – NIGER: N’Guigmi recorded a temperature of 110° shortly after midday
2001 – CLIMATE: It was reported that new evidence from ocean surveys supported the idea of global warming due to “greenhouse gases.”
2001 – CHINA: A 5.9 earthquake hit Yunan province and at least 7 people were killed. 42,000 homes were destroyed in the Shidian area
2003 – CANADA: A record warm day in southern Manitoba saw several daily temperature records set. Gretna boasted the hotspot reaching 81° and the town of Sprague just behind at 80°.
2006 – USA: Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa.
2006 – SPACE: European scientists released new photos of Venus’ south pole from the orbiting Venus Express spacecraft. The images revealed a mass of sulfuric acid clouds swirling in 220 mph winds.
2006 – SE EUROPE: The Danube reached record-high levels in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia, flooding fertile farmland as authorities considered ordering evacuations.
2006 – COLUMBIA: In western Colombia mudslides roared down on settlements, killing at least 10 people, leaving dozens missing and blocking a key highway to the Pacific coast.
2007 – IRELAND: Ireland is in the midst of a lengthy spell of dry and warm weather
2008 – SOUTH AFRICA: Two Americans and a Norwegian tourist on a shark cage diving adventure drowned when their boat was hit by a freak wave.
2010 – IRELAND: Fire service personnel in County Mayo tackle a number of forest fires
2010 – ICELAND: An eruption started in Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The first phase of the eruption was a Hawaiian type eruption that took place in Fimmvörðuháls
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April 14th is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.

1611 – ITALY: Word "telescope" was 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi, an Italian scientist, naturalist, and founder of the Accademia dei Lincei.
1629 – HOLLAND: Christian Huygens (d.1695), Dutch astronomer, discoverer of Saturn's rings, was born. He invented the pendulum and along with Newton showed that any body revolving around a centre is actually accelerating constantly toward that centre, even though the rate of rotation remains constant.
1854 – USA: Major coastal storm in the east dumps rain, sleet and snow. 24 inches of snow in northwestern New Jersey. Many ships were lost, including a passenger ship that broke up, killing 340 people.
1912 – IRELAND: The Belfast-built Titanic, on her maiden voyage, collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking. “Up in the crows nest, Frederick Fleet was staring into the darkness. It was around 11:30 p.m. on a very odd calm moonless night when he noticed a black object immediately in their path, he knew it was ice!” The Royal Mail Steamship of the White Star Line struck an iceberg at approximately 11:40 p.m. The great ship sank just under three hours later. 1,517 passengers were lost at sea.
1916 – ANTARCTICA: Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27 man crew landed at Elephant Island off the Antarctic Peninsula.
1920 – USA: Tornadoes killed 219 people in Mississippi and Alabama.
1924 – ITALY: The Italian Airship Number 1 was torn away from its moorings today in strong winds and 3 crewmen were carried 200ft and hurled to their deaths
1935 – USA: A major sandstorm ravaged the US Midwest. The Black Sunday Storm was the worst day of the almost decade long Dust Bowl era. It ravaged Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. In 2005 Timothy Egan authored “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.”
1948 – SPACE: A flash of light was observed in crater Plato on Moon.
1958 – SPACE: Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burned up in the atmosphere.
1966 – CANADA: Normally snow-free Victoria, British Columbia Canada received 3 inches of wet snow.
1969 – PAKISTAN: A tornado struck Dacca in East Pakistan killing 660.
1986 – USA: Wind rolled a 12,000 gallon fuel tank several miles at Tyron, NE as a big spring blizzard buffeted parts of the Dakotas and Nebraska.
1986 – BANGLADESH: 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1998 – USA: The Grand Forks Herald of North Dakota won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a flood and fire despite a damaged printing plant.
1999 – AUSTRALIA: A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2003 – CHINA: Severe thunderstorms dropped hail the size of eggs in the Guangdong Province in China causing damage to homes and crops. The storms caused one death and 24 injuries. In the city of Nanxiong, 4.7 inches of rain fall, producing severe flooding.
2004 – BANGLADESH: Tornadoes swept through northern Bangladesh, killing at least 69 people, injuring hundreds and blowing away thousands of flimsy huts.
2006 – CANADA: A Good Friday snowstorm dumped 6.5 inches on Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory Canada. Most unusual was the water content of the snow. Snow in Whitehorse usually is light, dry, and fluffy, and 6.5 inches typically yields less than 0.24 inches of water. This snowfall has a water equivalent of 0.62 inches.
2007 – THAILAND: Flash floods swept over two waterfalls on a southern Thai mountain packed with picnickers and swimmers celebrating the country's New Year, killing at least 35 people and leaving dozens more missing.
2009 – INDIA: In Himalayan Kashmir an avalanche hit an Indian army post, killing 7 soldiers.
2010 – ICELAND: The Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier
2010 – CHINA: Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai
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April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of the year.

1756 – FRANCE: Jacques Cassini (b.1677), French astronomer and cartographer, died.
1784 – IRELAND: The first manned balloon flight in Ireland took place. Wicklow native Richard Crosbie launched at 2:30 p.m. from an exhibition area at Rangelagh Gardens in Dublin his “Grand Air Balloon and Flying Barge” in which he intended to cross the Irish Sea. The balloon was beautifully ornamented with paintings of Minerva and Mercury supporting the Arms of Ireland and emblematic figures of the winds. More than 35,000 people had gathered here to view the historical ascent. Due to early darkness Crosbie decided to break his attempt to cross the Irish Sea and he landed at Clontarf. Before this flight Crosbie experimented with various balloons and released several carrying various animals as passengers. Later he made some further attempts to cross the Irish Sea but without success.
1800 – SCOTLAND: Sir James Clark Ross, Scottish explorer, was born. He located the Magnetic North Pole.
1912 – The Belfast-built passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed. The International Ice Patrol was founded as a result of the Titanic’s sinking.
1927 – USA: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1949 – USA: A hailstone 5 inches by 5 ½ inches in size, and weighing 4 pounds, was measured at Troy, New York.
1953 – BRITAIN: Reis Leming, a 22-year-old US airman stationed in Britain, is presented with the George Medal. He rescued 27 people in East Anglia during the winter floods. The award was the first given to a foreigner during peacetime.
1958 – USA: A tornado displaces a 2500-gallon water tank more than a mile from its original site at Frostproof Florida.
1979 – MONTENEGRO: A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on the Montenegro coast.
1990 – SPACE: The Space Shuttle Discovery placed the Hubble Telescope in orbit 500 miles above the Earth. This telescope was the first major orbiting observatory
1998 – EGYPT: Cairo, Egypt recorded a high temperature of 42C
1999 – SPACE: Astronomers announced that 3 planets had been detected orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae some 44 light-years away.
2002 – SOUTH KOREA: An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
2004 – CANADA: Deer Lake, Newfoundland was Canada’s hot spot for the day as the thermometer soared to 67°, a local record for the date.
2007 –USA: Airlines cancelled over 400 flights in the New York City area as a hard-blowing nor’easter gathered strength along the East Coast. The storm out of the Great Plains was already blamed for 5 deaths.
2008 – NEW ZEALAND: 5 people were killed and three others missing after they were swept away by a storm-swollen river in the Mangatepopo Gorge.
2008 – CHINA: Typhoon Neoguri formed over the South China Sea and rapidly intensifying to attain typhoon strength by the 16th, reaching its peak intensity on the 18th with maximum sustained winds near 110 mph. More than 120,000 people were evacuated from Hainan when heavy rains caused flash floods across low-lying areas. Three fatalities were attributed to the storm, though 40 fishermen were reported missing. The typhoon was the seasons earliest and perhaps the strongest to strike China since 1949.
2010 – ICELAND: Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.
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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of the year.

1503 – JAMAICA: Christopher Columbus abandoned the garrison at Rio Belen (Panama) and sailed for home (Hispaniola) with 3 ships. On the way he was shipwrecked during a storm in Jamaica.
1786 – BRITAIN: Sir John Franklin, arctic explorer, was born. He discovered the North-West Passage.
1851 – USA: The famous “Lighthouse Storm” raged near Boston Harbor. Whole gales and gigantic waves destroyed Minot Light with its two keepers still inside. The storm resulted in great shipping losses and coastal erosion.
1854 – EL SALVADOR: San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake.
1907 – CANADA: Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor of the snowmobile, was born in Valcourt, Quebec
1949: ENGLAND: The record high temperature for the UK in April (29c) was recorded in Camden Square, London
1986 – IRELAND: Thunderstorms and hail affect the west of Ireland as temperatures for mid-April struggle tor each above 5-7c.
1972 – SPACE: Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon.
1975 – USA: A single snow storm brought 119 inches of snow to Crater Lake, Oregon, establishing a state record.
1992 – MOZAMBIQUE: The Katina P. runs aground off Maputo. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean after a storm damages the ship’s hill.
1998 – USA: Tornadoes claimed 11 lives in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky
2008 – INDONESIA: Mount Egon volcano on Flores island in eastern Indonesia spewed ash and smoke 2 1/2 miles into the sky, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of nearby villagers.
2011 – USA: 16 people are killed by tornadoes in the States of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi.
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April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year.

607 – SPACE: Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth
1600 – JAPAN: The Dutch ship Liefde, piloted by Will Adams, reached Japan with a crew of 24 men.. 4 other ships in the expedition were lost in storms at sea.
1882- ENGLAND: Charles Darwin died. Darwin is best known for his two works "On the Orign of Species" and "Decent of Man" outlining his theories of evolution and his voyages to the Galapagos Islands aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.
1910 – CARIBBEAN: After weeks of being viewed through telescopes, Halley's Comet was reported visible to the naked eye in Curacao.
1963 - INDIA: A tornado struck northwestern Assam, India killing 139 people and leaving 3,760 families in 33 villages homeless.
1968 – ARCTIC: Ralph S. Plaisted (1927- 2008), insurance salesman turned explorer, reached the North Pole by snowmobile with 3 other men. This was the first expedition to indisputably reach the North Pole.
1971 –SPACE: The Soviet Union launched Salyut 1, the world’s first space station into orbit.
1975 – SPACE: India successfully launched their Aryabhatta satellite using a Soviet Intercosmos rocket into orbit. The satellite would test their tracking systems and conduct x-ray and solar astronomy experiments.
1986 – USA: A major storm system produced 10 tornadoes in Texas. One of these tornadoes virtually annihilated the town of Sweetwater. The tornado struck at the unlikely time of 7:17am. One person was killed and 100 were injured.
1992 – USA: After six days, engineers plugged the tunnel leak under the Chicago River that caused an underground flood that had virtually shut down business in the heart of the city.
1995 – CHINA: Weighing in at just over 33 pounds, the world's heaviest hailstone on record fell on Guangdong Province
1996 – USA/CANADA: The period April 19 to April 21 produced an almost continuous outbreak of 111 tornadoes from Arkansas, through Illinois, and into southern Canada. The downtown of Berea KY was destroyed and Fort Smith AR was also heavily damaged. Almost every one of the 150 homes in Ogden, Illinois were damaged or destroyed by the tornado that struck at 7:00PM on the 19th. Seventeen people were injured, but there were no deaths in the residential area. Urbana and Decatur were also hard hit. The good news was that 105 of the 111 tornadoes and all of the killer tornadoes occurred in areas that had been alerted with tornado watches
1997 - USA: The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1998 – USA: In Arizona grasshoppers by the millions descended on communities along the lower Colorado River.
1999 – USA: In Florida the Everglades fire charred had 130,000 acres and continued to rage.
2003 – FRANCE: Up to half of France's 2003 champagne crop may be lost after vines were hit by freak frosts that producers described as the worst in almost 50 years.
2005 – CANADA: The Ministry of Environment issued their earliest warm-season smog advisory for southern Ontario. Traditionally, the smog season runs from May to September.
2006 – SE EUROPE: Emergency teams evacuate 10,000 people in Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania as the Danube and its tributaries threaten to overwhelm makeshift flood defences.
2008 – ARGENTINA: President Cristina Fernandez surveyed more than 200 raging brush fires by air as a thick cloud of smoke covered Buenos Aires for a fifth day.
2008 – CANADA: A record snowfall surprised many in southern British Columbia as an overnight storm knocked out power to thousands. Snowfall records are set in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver.
2010 – IRELAND: Most flights remain grounded due to the volcanic ash cloud
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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1607 – USA: Ships under the command of Capt. Christopher Newport sought shelter from a fierce storm in Chesapeake Bay. The forced landing led to the founding of Jamestown on the James River, the first English settlement. An expedition of English colonists, including Capt. John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1785 – HAITI: John James Audubon, American naturalist, bird watcher (ornithologist) and artist, was born. Audubon catalogued the birds of America and influenced Charles Darwin.
1900 - USA: Charles Richter was born. Richter was an American seismologist who is best known for the logarithmic earthquake magnitude scale that bears his name. When an earthquake occurs, the maximum amplitude of the shake is measured on a seismometer and assigned a Richter number. A quake with a value of 5 on the Richter scale is 10 times more powerful than a quake with a value of 4.
1924 – INDIA: A tornado destroyed three villages and killed hundreds at Pihani in the Oudh district. The tornado was about 330 yards wide at times.
1962 – SPACE: The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
1966 – UZBEKISTAN: An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1971 – BRAZIL: Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15″ in 24 hrs
1984 – USA: A two-day outbreak of tornadoes spawned 47 twisters from Louisiana to Michigan. 16 killed 259 injured.
1986 – UKRAINE: The world’s worst nuclear accident occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine, north of Kiev, at 1:23 a.m. as the Chernobyl atomic power plant exploded. Thousands were exposed to radioactive material that spread in the atmosphere throughout the world. About 70% of the fallout fell in Belarus.
1989 – BANGLADESH: The deadliest tornado in world history strikes the Manikganj District in Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1991 – USA: 23 people were killed as four dozen tornadoes swept across Kansas and Oklahoma.
1994 – NORWAY: 26.9°C in Prestebakke (Norwegian April high temp record)
2004 – CANADA: A late April snowstorm buried Gander, Newfoundland Canada under 14-18 inches of snow.
2008 – USA: A wildfire broke out in southern California, 10 miles northeast of Pasadena. Officials the next day said that it has scorched 270 acres and forced the evacuation of about 100 homes in neighbourhoods might not be under control for days.
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April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1054 – IRELAND: The earliest recorded tornado in Europe occurred at Rosdalla, near Kilbeggan in Co. Westmeath. On average around 10 tornadoes are reported in Ireland each year. 10 tornadoes were recorded across Ireland in 2005. They occurred in Dingle, Killucan, Clonee, Ballymore, Rasharkin, Derrymore, Ballinamullen, Markethill, Gougenabarra and Inver
1483 – SPACE: Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503.
1494 – CUBA: Christopher Columbus arrived in Guantanamo Bay on his 2nd voyage to the Americas.
1852 – USA: A tornado hit New Harmony, Indiana, killing 16 people.
1888 – INDIA: 246 people died in the world's deadliest hailstorm in India. Hailstones were reportedly the size of baseballs. 1600 domesticated animals at Moradabad perished.
1924 – USA: A major tornado outbreak occurred from Alabama to Virginia. 20 tornadoes were of F2 intensity or greater. A total of 111 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured.
1985 – USA: A giant slab of ice, six feet long and eight inches thick, weighing over 1,500 pounds, fell into a backyard in Hartford, Connecticut. The ice probably came off of a high flying jet plane.
1991 – BANGLADESH: Apr 29-Apr 31, A cyclone killed an estimated 131,000 people. 9 million were left homeless. Thousands of survivors died from hunger and water borne disease.
1994 – USA: It finally stopped raining on the Kaneohe Ranch on the island of Oahu in Hawaii ending a streak of 247 consecutive days of rain which began 8/27/1993.
1998 - A report in 'Nature' traced mammals back to around 100 million years before the present using a “molecular clock.”
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May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1920 – USA: A swarm of tornadoes killed 64 people in Oklahoma. An F4 tornado destroyed the town of Peggs OK killing 71 people. This total is so tragic since it represented 30% of the town’s population.
1925 – AUSTRIA: Johann Palisa died. Palisa was an Austrian astronomer who is considered to be the most successful visual discoverer of asteroids. He discovered 122 asteroids, many using only a 6-inch refracting telescope.
1984 – USA: A 6.4 earthquake injured 94 people in Coalinga, California, and caused an estimated $10 million in damages.
2001- CHINA: A landslide in Wulong County buried a 9-story building where 76 of 95 residents were home. 65 bodies were recovered. At least 79 people were killed.
2002 – SWITZERLAND: Locarno, Magadino, recorded 60 consecutive hours of rainfall ending at 0600z May 4th totaling 19.4 inches.
2003 – IRELAND: Met Éireann confirms that the month of April goes into the record books as one of the warmest for the last 100 years. At Valentia Observatory and Malin Head the temperatures recorded for the month were the highest since 1893.
2008 – MYANMAR: Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
2008 – USA: Severe storms rolled across Arkansas and killed 8 people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed. The deaths came after earlier storms seriously damaged homes and businesses in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
2008 – CHILE: In southern Chile authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages after the snowcapped Chaiten volcano, considered dormant for thousands of years, erupted.
2011 – IRELAND: Gorse, bog and forest fires burn in many parts of the country. The worst affected areas are Down, Donegal, Mayo and Galway. High winds and dry conditions contribute to the problem.
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May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1715 – FRANCE: A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.
1825 – BRITAIN: Thomas Henry Huxley (d.1895), British biologist, naturalist and author, was born. His work includes the collected Essays in nine volumes: Darwiniana, Science and Education, Man’s Place in Nature, and Discourses, Biological and Geological.
1917 – USA: Up to 8 inches of snow falls in northwest Texas.
1927 – USA: The first balloon flight over 40,000 feet was made.
1934 – USA: Severe winds cause the dirigible airship The Akron to crash in New Jersey, killing 73 people in one of the first air disasters in history. Akron was the largest airship built in the United States when it took its first flight in August 1931.
1941 – UK: The UK’s lowest temperature (-9.4C) for May was recorded at Lynford, Norfolk
1961 – FRANCE: A multiple vortex tornado struck Trombe d’Evereau, France killing one person and injuring 100 others along a five mile path.
1967 – SPACE: Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1971 – CANADA: Tragedy struck the village of St-Jean-Vianney, Quebec Canada when heavy rains caused a sinkhole 1,800 feet wide and 92 feet deep to appear in a residential area. The crater/mudslide killed 31 people and swallowed up 35 homes, a bus and several cars.
1972 – CANADA: The Don’t Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
1989 – SPACE: NASA launched the Magellan spacecraft from the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the planet Venus.
1994 – IRELAND: Wet and cool weather greets the country’s first observed May Bank Holiday Monday
1996 – SUDAN: A Sudanese passenger plane crashed and killed all 53 onboard. The plane was a Russian Antonov-24 and had tried to land outside of Khartoum in an area cleared for a new airport because sand covered the runways following a storm at Khartoum
1999 – IRELAND: Temperatures hit 20c on Bank Holiday Monday
2000 – INDONESIA: A 6.5 earthquake was centered in the Maluku Sea off Pelang Island and at least 17 people were killed.
2002 – SPACE: NASA launched a $952 million weather satellite equipped to measure the movement of moisture as it cycles through the atmosphere, land and sea. The satellite takes the equivalent of 400,000 balloon measurements each day. The information will help meteorologists improve weather forecasts and study climate change.
2003 – USA: Swarms of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes crashed through the nation’s midsection, killing at least 30 people in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee. 8 people were missing in Pierce City, Mo.
2003 – BANGALDESH: In eastern Bangladesh a tropical storm flattened hundreds of flimsy huts in several villages, killing 19 people.
2003 – KENYA: Floods caused by two weeks of heavy rain have washed out roads and submerged entire villages, killing at least 30 people and forcing thousands from their homes.
2003 – SPACE: A Soyuz spacecraft safely delivered a three-man, US-Russian crew to Earth in the first landing since the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
2006 – RUSSIA: All 113 passengers and crew on board an Armenian airliner are killed when the aircraft crashed into the Black Sea off the Russian coast in heavy rain and disintegrated.
2006 – CHINA: Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing’s heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China’s capital.
2007 – USA: Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
2008 – SOUTH KOREA: At least eight were people killed when they were swept away by high waves that hit the port of Boryeong Namdo on the west coast.
2011 – IRELAND: Birdwatch Ireland claims that gorse fires that have spread across 16 counties have caused “enormous” damage to wildlife.
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May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1494 – JAMAICA: During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus first sighted Jamaica and commented on the daily rains. Columbus landed on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.
1939 – USA: Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
1961 – SPACE: Astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (d.1998 at 74), a Navy commander, became the first American in space as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in the Freedom 7 Project Mercury capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft reached a maximum altitude of 116.5 miles.
1982 – The Weather Channel went on the air with 4.2 million cable subscribers. Created by network television weathercaster John Coleman, the all-weather network would boast 50 million subscribers by its tenth anniversary. The most popular part of the networks programming is specific local forecast and warning information, beamed to local cable systems by satellite and displayed on subscribers sets.
1993 – MONGOLIA/CHINA: A four-day sandstorm raged across Mongolia and Northwestern China with hurricane-force winds. Reports of 47 deaths came from Sansu Province in China. As many as 300,000 head of livestock died in Inner Mongolia.
1995 – USA: Thunderstorms began tearing through North Texas, claiming two dozen lives.
1996 – USA: In Alaska at the Nenana Ice Classic, 12 winners guessed the movement of ice on the Tanana River at 12:32 p.m. and split the $300,000 jackpot.
1998 – MEXICO: A forest fire killed 19 fire-fighters and left 12 missing.
2000 – JAPAN: The Japanese Meteorological Agency named the first typhoon of the season Damrey, using a new multi-national naming list that not only included people’s name, but names of animals, astrological signs, fish and even an airport. Damrey is Cambodian for elephant.
2000 – SPACE: Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon (they appeared near one another in the sky).
2001 – IRELAND: Ireland’s tourist industry hopes the bank holiday weekend and good weather will attract visitors to areas previously closed due to foot-and-mouth disease.
2002- MONGOLIA: In the 24 hours up to 1200z the rainfall equivalent of close to a half inch of rain and snow fell at Ulan Bator, Mongolia equalling their normal monthly precipitation.
2003 – BANGLADESH: A severe thunderstorm struck the Brahmanbaria District of eastern Bangladesh claiming at least 22 lives. Winds gusted as high as 75 mph accompanied by hail and heavy rain, flattened hundreds of mud houses.
2003 – USA: Tornadoes across Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee left at least 40 people dead. Tornado-packed storms flattened communities in four Midwestern states, killing 19 people.
2007 – CHINA: It was reported that China has 16 of the world’s most polluted cities. The UN said dirty air caused the premature death of some 400,000 Chinese each year.
2009 – USA: In California a wildfire broke out in the Santa Ynez mountains near Santa Barbara. By May 15, after destroying 80 homes, it was 90% contained. On Dec 10 officials charged 2 men with misdemeanours for allegedly sparking the Jesusita fire.
2011 – USA: US Government engineers prepare to blow up a third section of a Mississippi River levee in an attempt to reduce the risk of flooding in a number of States.
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May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1617 – SPACE: David Fabricius died. Fabricius was a German astronomer who observed the first variable star. This discovery conflicted with the current idea the stars were eternal and unchanging.
1771 – CANADA: Samuel Hearne arrives at the mouth of the Coppermine River and views the Arctic Coast.
1840 – USA: A tornado strikes Natchez in Mississippi, kills 317. This was the worst tornado in United States history to occur before the establishment of the Weather Bureau.
1857 – USA: The first newspaper weather report is published. The Washington Evening Star began publishing the reports from the observations made by Joseph Henry's network of volunteer weather observers.
1915 – IRELAND: Nearly 1200 people drown when the British liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork
1934 – PHILIPPINES: World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) was found at Palawan
1953 – CHILE: A record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron
1986 – USA: A 8.0 multiple event quake on Adak and Atka, Alaska. A resultant Tsunami with observed wave heights 91 to 122 cm at Kapaa, Kauai and 61 to 91 cm at Hanalei, Kauai and along the coast of Washington
1992 – SPACE: The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on its maiden voyage.
2001 – IRELAND: Islanders off the coast of Cork rescue a 20ft pilot whale who became stranded at Hare Island with another dead whale.
2002 – TUNISIA: An EgyptAir Boeing 737 with 62 people crashed in bad weather near Tunis. 14 people were killed.
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1360 – FRANCE: Thousands were reported killed by a severe hailstorm in Chartres
1541 – USA: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered and crossed the Mississippi River, which he called Rio de Espiritu Santo
1567 – IRELAND: Shane O'Neill's army crosses the Swilly estuary at Farsetmore, near Letterkenny in County Donegal, and is defeated in a pitched battle by Hugh O'Donnell. Many drown while trying to escape; O'Neill loses approximately 1,300 men
1874 – USA: A deadly hailstorm in South Carolina hit the town of Winnsborough. The hailstones, measuring as much as nine inches in circumference, killed several persons, as well as livestock
1902 – MARTINIQUE: Mt. Pelee volcano, on the French Island of Martinique in the east W. Indies, erupted and wiped out the town of St. Pierre. A pyroclastic flow killed 29-40 thousand people. In 1972 Jacques Petitjean Roget published a detailed report on the event. In 2002 Alwyn Scarth authored “La Catastrophe.”
1919 – USA: The first transatlantic flight took-off by a US Navy seaplane.
1926 – ARCTIC: The first flight over North Pole.
1977 – USA: The great Mother’s Day storm produced heavy rain after three years of severe drought across southern California.
1978 – NEPAL: First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1997 – CHINA: A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes while attempting to land in a thunderstorm AT Bao'an International Airport. 35 people are killed
1998 – BRAZIL: “Operation Drought” was launched to airlift food to the drought stricken northeast where 10 million people were threatened with hunger.
1999 – USA: A hailstorm at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida damaged the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The 15 story tank suffered 150 dents. The scheduled launch of the Shuttle had to be delayed so that the vehicle could be rolled back to the hanger for repairs.
1999 – CANADA: A tornado struck the town of Hull, Quebec and tore roofs off buildings, causing $2 million dollars in damage.
1999 – IRELAND: A small tornado hits Carraroe, near Williamstown in County Galway, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. Trees were uprooted and farm buildings were damaged. A couple made a lucky escape from their mobile home, which was picked up and torn apart by the tornado.
2001- EL SALVADOR: Some 100 small earthquakes hit the country over a 24-hour period.
2003 – IRELAND: French angler Marc Peyronnie lands an enormous 44 lb-3oz pike following a 25 minute titanic struggle at Ardan Lake, near Milltown In County Cavan. The fish measured 1.18 metres
2004 – CHINA: A tornado ripped through the Guangdong province town of Qishi, killing two people and injuring 85 others. The storm severely damaged 474 homes.
2006 – USA: Florida’s Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency and called in the state National Guard to help fight wildfires that have burned thousands of acres and blanketed highways with thick smoke.
2006 – INDIA: Indian voters braved blistering summer heat as marathon state elections drew to a close with ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi looking set to regain her parliamentary seat in a by-election. The death toll from a heat wave rose to 34.
2009 – USA: In the Midwest a wave of storms damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. 5 people were left dead.
2009 – BRAZIL: Brazilians huddled in cow pens converted into emergency shelters, as swollen rivers continue to rise and northern Brazil's worst floods in decades boosted the number of homeless to nearly 300,000. The death toll rose to 39, and coffins started popping out of the soaked earth.
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May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1886 – USA: 43 people killed by tornado in Xenia, Ohio. Total deaths in two Ohio counties: 57.
1910 – ENGLAND: William Huggins died. Huggins was an English amateur astronomer and a pioneer of spectroscopy.
1926 – Umberto Nobile flies airship over the North Pole, representing the first time a vessel has flown over the region
1934 – USA: A dust storm darkened skies from Oklahoma to the Atlantic coast.
1956 – PAKISTAN: East Pakistan is struck by a cyclone and tidal waves
1971 – TURKEY: A 6.3 earthquakes in western Turkey killed about 100 people.
1972 – USA: 18 people killed in Flash Flooding in the Texas Hill Country as 16 inches of rain fell near New Braunfels
1978 – USA: The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female
1980 – CANADA/USA: Maxie Anderson (45) and his son Kris (23) completed the 1st balloon crossing of the American continent as they landed their helium-filled balloon on Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula. Their journey began May 8 in Marin Ct., California.
1987 – CHINA: A forest fire that had spread quickly in Mohe County of the Heilongjiang Province now covers 2,000 square miles with 100 dead. The fire eventually burned two and a half million acres of land with 50,000 people losing their homes. and 193 people dead.
1997 – USA: Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
1997 – IRELAND: Torrential rain, low temperatures and thunderstorms affect eastern coastal counties
1997 – CUBA/USA: Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida
2005 – CAYMAN ISLANDS: An election was held in the Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan.
2008 – CHINA: Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
2010 – MYANMAR: The country’s highest ever temperature (47.0 °C / 116.6 °F) is recorded at Myinmu
2010 – USA: The “Top Hat” dome is placed near the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The top hat shaped container dome was the second attempt at placing a container over the leak after the first attempt failed. The second dome was much smaller than the first, the first failed when it became blocked. Officials stated it could take a week to place the new dome over the actual leak and get it to work.
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May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1602 – USA: Cape Cod is discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1713 – FRANCE/SPACE: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was born. Lacaille was a French astronomer who catalogued thousands of southern hemisphere stars and introduced 14 constellations. He was the first to publish a catalogue of stars of the Southern Hemisphere. He also produced a calendar list of eclipses for 1800 years.
1793 – SPAIN: Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1834 – USA: The northern Atlantic Coast States experienced their greatest May snowstorm on record, with up to 3ft of snow recorded in Vermont.
1896 – USA: Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1958 – SPACE/RUSSIA: Sputnik 3 was launched from a Soviet Soyuz rocket to become the first satellite to take measurements from space. It contained a wide variety of instruments to measure the environment outside the spacecraft.
1966 – METEOROLOGY: The NIMBUS II satellite was launched on this date. It eliminated the threat of tropical cyclones striking without warning ever again. Polar orbiting satellites, the NIMBUS series gave meteorologists worldwide coverage at least once per day.
1968 – USA: A tornado at Jonesboro, Arkansas, killed 34 people. Only tornado of record to have occurred in Alaska touched down near Anchorage, killing one
1972 – USA: The worst ice jam flooding on record took place along the Kuskokwim River and Yukon River in Alaska. It was the first time since 1890 the two rivers "flowed as one".
1981 – INDONESIA: Heavy thunderstorms over a week long period triggered severe landslides on the island of Java. 500 people were killed and 3,300 were left homeless.
1992 – KYRGYZSTAN: A 6.2 quake resulted in three people killed, 5,500 houses completely destroyed and more than 4,000 houses damaged
1992 – USA: Robert Morris Page, a pioneer of radar technology, died. Page was.
1996 – SPACE: An asteroid about a third of a mile across was detected and enroute to miss Earth by only 279,000 miles on 19th May. Timothy Spar and Carl Hergenrother discovered the asteroid and named it 1996 JA-1. It was traveling at 10 miles per second on a 4-year orbit around the sun.
1997 – SPACE: It was reported that scientists at Cal Tech identified the source of mysterious gamma rays as coming from behind a large intergalactic cloud some 2 billion light-years from Earth.
1999 – NEPAL: The country’s coldest ever recored temperature is reported at Mt. Everest, Sagarmatha (−45.0 °C / −49.0 °F)
2003 – IRELAND: The National Museum of Ireland says that a remarkably well-preserved headless body found by a farmer in a bog near Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, could be up to 2000 years old. The Iron Age bog body becomes known as the Old Croghan Man
2005 – BANGLADESH: In southern Bangladesh at least 22 people have died and over 70 are missing after a twin-deck ferry with more than 100 aboard sank on the Char Kazal river during a storm.
2006 – INDONESIA: Mount Merapi erupted violently, sending searing gas clouds and burning rocks down its scorched flanks and threatening villagers who refused to leave because of ancient mystical beliefs.
2008 – SPACE: An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off with supplies, equipment and gifts for the international space station.
2010 – AUSTRALIA: Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. In the liturgical calendar, today is St. Brendan’s Feast Day

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1791 – USA: The largest earthquake recorded for Connecticut was an intensity VII quake near Moodus. The town is infamous in Connecticut for the strange noises coming from the woods which have been termed “Moodus noises”, and are attributed to shallow micro-earthquakes
1874 – USA: A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1875 – COLUMBIA/VENEZUELA: An earthquake kills 16,000
1898 – AUSTRALIA: At least 20 waterspouts were spawned by a huge cumulonimbus cloud off of Eden, New South Wales Australia. The first was estimated to be 30 times as high as a clipper ship.
1909 – USA: In North Dakota a 5.5 quake occurred, the largest historical earthquake in the state
1911 – UK: Remains of a Neanderthal man were found in Jersey
1911 – GERMANY: Strong winds cause the destruction of the Zeppelin Airship LZ-8 Deutschland at Düsseldorf
1927 – USA: Following the floods in Louisiana rescue workers have so far found over 20 people dead with more coming as they continue to check homes flooded due to the flooding
1946 – USA: A severe hailstorm at San Antonio, Texas caused $5 million dollars damage and injured 20 people.
1963 – SPACE: After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth in Friendship Seven, ending Project Mercury.
1968 – JAPAN: Magnitude 7.0 earthquake kills 47 and injures281 injured. $131 million property damage was sustained.
1969 – SPACE: Russia’s Venera 5 landed on Venus and returned data on atmosphere.
1975 – NEPAL: Japanese climber Junko Tabei (b.1939) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1992 – SPACE: The space shuttle Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
1995 – USA: The U.S. set a new monthly tornado record in May, 1995 with 408 twisters reported
2001 – IRELAND: Proposals to locate the first wind farm off the country’s west coast are unveiled. The £100 million project is to be located off the north Kerry coast on the southern lip of the Shannon estuary and is to involve the construction of between 20 and 30 wind turbines
2006 – IRELAND: A High Court judge has said he will facilitate an early hearing of a dispute over the contract for sponsorship of the weather forecast on RTÉ.
2006 – EL SALVADOR: Scientists warned that tropical forests, which house El Salvador’s famed coffee plantations and provide habitat for migrating birds, are being depleted at an alarming rate.
2006 – NEW ZEALAND: A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred deep under the South Pacific near an uninhabited chain of islands north of New Zealand.
2007 – USA: The journal Nature said that a bird count had found common US species, like robins, crows and bluebirds, in sharp decline due to West Nile virus. A US Geological survey in June found that populations of 20 common American bird species have dropped by half in the last 40 years
2008 – CHINA: In China a strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicentre of this week’s powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days. The official death toll rose to about 22,069, and another 14,000 still were buried in Sichuan.
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May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

1498 – INDIA: Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut
1588 - The Spanish Armada sets sail for England; it is defeated by England the following August during which fierce storms around Ireland destroy much of the fleet
1711 – ITALY: Ruggiero G. Boscovich [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer, was born.
1788 – SCOTLAND: Hugh Clapperton, African explorer, was born in Annan.
1825 – USA: Tornado at Burlington, Ohio reportedly destroyed the entire town.
1883 – USA: Tornado at Racine, Wisconsin killed 25 people.
1902 – USA: Tornado at Goliad, Texas killed 114. This is the furthest south that any major U.S. tornado disaster has ever occurred.
1910 – SPACE: The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1939 – IRELAND: The first aircraft lands at the newly opened Rineanna Airfield, which is later named Shannon International Airport
1955 – USA: 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya, New Mexico (state record)
1969 – SPACE: Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard Apollo 10.
1976 – IRELAND: Tim Severin sets off in a voyage from Dingle to America in imitation of St. Brendan.
1980 – USA: At 8:32 a.m. Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupted. It burst 3 times in 24 hours after rumbling for two months and left 57 people dead or missing. The mountain lost over 1,300 feet of elevation and gained a two-mile-long and one mile-wide crater.
1988 – USA: Hail up to knee deep in places was reported in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, during a “thunderstorm of a lifetime.” The hail fell for 45 minutes.
1991 – SPACE: Britain’s first astronaut, 27-year-old Helen Sharman aboard the Soviet Soyuz TM-12 space capsule becomes the first Britain in Space.
1995 – USA: Severe weather outbreak in Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valleys. 6 killed, 65 injured. 86 tornadoes reported. One of the largest tornado outbreaks in 2 decades in Tennessee. 3 killed at Ethridge.
2000 – EAST TIMOR: Floodwaters from monsoon rains drowned at least 50 people in refugee camps.
2001 – BRAZIL: Consumers and businesses are ordered to cut energy use by 20% due to shortages created by drought. Rationing was to start June 1.
2006 – SPACE: Swiss astronomers reported the discovery of a 3-planet system circling the star HD69830 in the constellation Puppis.
2007 – USA: In New Jersey a second rainstorm in three days soaked a forest fire and raised hopes that it could be brought under full control by day’s end. New Jersey Air National Guard officials said one of their F-16s dropped a flare into the tinder-dry Pinelands during a training mission May 15, possibly starting the blaze.
2007 – USA: Deep-sea explorers of Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration said they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed shipwreck off England. The estimated value was $500 million.
2009 – PHILIPPINES: In the southern Philippines mudslides tumbled down a rain-soaked mountain, burying dozens of shanties in a gold mining village and killing at least 26 people.
2011 – SPACE: The space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for the last time.
2011 – CANADA: Smoke from wildfires spans hundreds of kilometres across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories.
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May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of the year.

Some of the weather and earth science related events that took place on this day down through history:

526 – An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
1201 – MIDDLE EAST: A massive earthquake kills thousands in Egypt, Syria and Iraq
1293 – JAPAN: 30,000 people are killed in an earthquake, which hits Kamakura
1506 – SPAIN: Explorer Christopher Columbus (55) died in the Spanish city of Valladolid.
1729 – UK: A waterspout moved on land at Bexhill, Sussex England and became a tornado. The tornado levelled many buildings along its path of destruction, 12 miles long and on average 380 yards wide.
1857 – IRAQ: A dust storm blew all day at Baghdad, Iraq. Then at about 5 pm, a darkness set in “deeper than the darkest night” terrorizing local residents.
1916 – USA: A tornado hit Codell, Kansas. More hit on the same date in 1917 and 1918.
1919 – INDONESIA: Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
1927 – USA/FRANCE: Charles Lindbergh (25) took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., at 7:40 AM aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.
1932 – USA/IRELAND: Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry City, after 13 ½ hours instead of her intended destination, France.
1963 – USA: Known as Black Saturday in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, flames from a forest fire moved 9 miles in just 6 hours. The flames would burn for 11 days. Seven people were killed and nearly 1,000 left homeless as more than 200,000 acres burn.
1963 – PAKISTAN: In East Pakistan a cyclone killed about 22,000 along coast of the Bay of Bengal.
1974 – SPACE: Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1987 – USA: Grapefruit-size hail in southern Texas killed small animals, damaged property and destroyed watermelon crops.
1990 – SPACE: The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.
1993 – SPACE: 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1998 – BANGLADESH: A cyclone pounded the south-eastern coast and killed at least 14 people. Nearly 100 fisherman were missing.
1999 – PAKISTAN: A cyclone struck the Arabian Sea coast and left an estimated 700 people missing, many of whom were presumed dead. Residents said that as many as 3,500 people were missing. Some 92 bodies of Indians were recovered from the cyclone that hit the Pakistani coast by May 27. The number of bodies of Indian fisherman found reached 278 on Jun 2.
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