I'm gonna focus mainly on the myriad disasters that have befallen humanity today, but we'll start off with some coolness. 'Twas on this date in 571 B.C. that Servius Tullius, Roman King, had a Triumph because he beat the crap out of the Etruscans. The Romans got into the habit of doing that (the Etruscan thing, though triumphs were also fairly common), and eventually the Etruscans gave it up and became Roman.
On to the disasters: In 1343, an earthquake caused a tsunami off the coast of Naples. Bad news there, though there is no mention of casualties. But I'm guessing there were a lot.
1667 saw an earthquake in the Caucasus, with 80,000 dead.
1703 had The Great Storm of 1703 right on schedule. Hurricane force winds in the south of England. Mark off another 9000 people.
1759 has another earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean. Beirut and Damascus pay the price, and another 30-40,000 people are gone.
Indonesia gets hit with an earthquake and tsunami, this one in 1833. Again, no mention of casualties, but probably pretty major, as one report I read refers to the dead as "numerous'.
Six years later, it was India's turn. A cyclone and a 40 foot storm surge hit the coast. Mark off roughly 300,000 more.
So far we haven't had any twisters, but that changed in 1926. Happy Thanksgiving to folks in Arkansas and some other states. A mere 76 people die as a result.
Along comes Typhoon Nina to visit the Philippines in 1987. Slightly over a thousand people leave with her.
1996 gives an ice storm to the US. Another 26 people join the list of weather related deaths on this date.
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