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** A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.
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** The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12 ; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
** An F3 tornado away from the Westminster, Maryland city center injures 3 people and causes $ 5 million in damages.
** Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale, the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.
** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.
** A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people ( the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day ).
** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan ( the last to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado ).
** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
** Greensburg ( TV series ) ( 2008-2010 ), about the rebuilding of Greensburg after being struck by an EF5 tornado
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** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).
** A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1, 500, leaving 2, 000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
** The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
** Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives, and destroys 2, 642. 7 square kilometres ( 653, 025. 4 acres ) of land.
** Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
** May – Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal.
** Sir George Rooke fails to take Cadiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships.
** A single Japanese bomber destroys 11 U. S. Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft parked at Tacloban Airfield on Leyte.
** Muhammad II – great-grandson of Abd al-Rahman III – deposes Hisham II as Caliph and destroys Al-Mansur's palace complex of al-Madinat al-Zahira near Córdoba.
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