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1961: The TIROS-3 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
1995: Four straight days of derechos began across portions of the northern United States and southern Canada.
1996: Hurricane Bertha, an unusual early-season Atlantic hurricane, made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina.
2006: An F2 tornado struck parts of New York and Connecticut, causing several million dollars in damage.