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September 9

1775: The Independence Hurricane killed around 4,000 people in Newfoundland.

1821: One of the first known tornado outbreaks struck New England, killing at least 8 people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

1913: A German zeppelin flew into a storm over the North Sea. It crashed and sank, killing 14 people.

1965: Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, flooding parts of the city. Betsy was the first hurricane ever to cause more than $1 billion (1965 USD) in damage.

1974: An avalanche killed all six members of an expedition attempting to summit Mount Everest.

1980: MV Derbyshire, the largest ship ever to sink, was lost south of Japan during Typhoon Orchid, killing all 44 aboard.

1980: The GOES 4 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 4 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States and later Europe for more than 8 years.

1996: Typhoon Sally made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula, killing at least 140 people in Hainan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, China.