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June 8[edit]

1924: Samuel B. Avis, a former member of United States House of Representatives, was struck and killed by lightning in Charleston, West Virginia.

1953: On the second day of a deadly three-day tornado outbreak, an F5 tornado killed 116 people in Flint, Michigan.

1966: A tornado, one of the costliest in history, tracked across Topeka, Kansas, destroying a large portion of the city and killing 18 people.