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1421: St. Elizabeth's flood killed 2,000 or more people in the present-day Netherlands.
1912: Robert Simpson, former director of the National Hurricane Center and co-inventor of the Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, was born in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1977: A severe tropical cyclone struck the Andhra Pradesh state of India with a devastating storm surge, killing more than 10,000 people.
2013: Up to 440 millimetres (17 in) of rain in just 90 minutes caused severe flooding on Sardinia, killing 18 people.
2016: The GOES-16 geostationary weather satellite was launched.