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May 24

1686: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the Fahrenheit temperature scale used primarily in the United States, was born in present-day Poland.

1988: TACA Flight 110 lost power to both its engines due to water ingestion after flying through a heavy thunderstorm. Unable to reach an airport, its pilots made a successful deadstick landing on a grass levee near NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility.

2001: A tropical cyclone reached peak intensity in the northern Indian Ocean with a central pressure of 932 millibars (27.52 inHg). At the time it was the strongest tropical cyclone on record in that region, and would eventually kill hundreds upon landfall in the Saurashtra region of India.

2006: The GOES 13 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 13 would provide public weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2018, when it was transferred to the United States Air Force.