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September 16

1903: President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt was caught aboard his yacht in a hurricane, but made it to shore safely. Dozens of other boats in the area were sunk.

1928: Just two years after a Category 4 hurricane hit Miami, killing 373, another hurricane came ashore just north of the city, killing 2500 in Florida.

1961: Silver iodide was dropped into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther, marking the beginning of the project which would eventually become Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken Atlantic hurricanes through cloud seeding.

1961: Hurricane Debbie, the only tropical cyclone in history to directly impact the British Isles, brought damaging winds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) across Ireland.

1967: Hurricane Doria made landfall near the border of Virginia and North Carolina, moving in a very unusual southward direction. No major damage was reported, though three people were killed off the shore of New Jersey when their small boat sunk.

1971: Hurricane Edith made its third and final landfall in western Louisiana.

1984: Tropical Storm Fran passed just south of the Cape Verde islands, causing severe flooding that killed at least 29 people.