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September 18

1852: Clement Lindley Wragge, a meteorologist who pioneered the concept of giving names to tropical cyclones, was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England.

1906: A typhoon devastated the city and port of Hong Kong, killing 15,000 people: around 5% of the population at the time.

1962: The TIROS-6 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

1974: Hurricane Fifi began skimming the northern coast of Honduras, eventually killing at least 8,000 people and causing $4 billion (2007 USD) in damage.

2013: Hurricane Manuel, the costliest Pacific hurricane on record, made landfall near Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, killing 169 people and causing more than US$4 billion in damage.

2020: Despite tropical cyclones being a rare occurrence in Europe, two tropical or subtropical cyclones, Cyclone Ianos and Subtropical Storm Alpha, made landfall on the same day in Greece and Portugal respectively.