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June 27

1933: A hurricane passed near Trinidad and made landfall in northern Venezuela, killing 13 people in Trinidad and "a number" of people in Venezuela.

1957: Hurricane Audrey, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to strike the United States in the 20th century, killed 419 people and caused more than US$150,000,000 (equivalent to about $1,630,000,000 in 2023) in damage in Louisiana and Texas.

1979: The NOAA-6 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit. NOAA-6 returned a wide variety of observations of the earth, atmosphere, oceans, and space until its decommissioning in 1987.

2009: The GOES 14 geostationary weather satellite was launched.