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1737: A severe cyclone killed 3,000 people in Calcutta, India.
2003: Hurricane Olaf made landfall near Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). No damage was reported.
2009: A Typhoon Parma, locally known as Typhoon Pepeng, finally began moving away from Luzon, Philippines, after three separate landfalls and days of flooding rains killed more than 300 people.
2014: The Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellite, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center.