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May 23

1917: Edward Lorenz, meteorologist and original founder of the field of chaos theory, was born in West Hartford, Connecticut.

1982: Tropical Storm Aletta reached peak intensity off the western coast of Central America. Aletta brought more than 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain to parts of Honduras and Nicaragua, causing flooding that killed more than 300 people.

1995: The GOES 9 weather satellite was launched. GOES 9 would provide weather forecasting data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration until 1998, and was leased to the Japan Meteorological Agency from 2001–2003.