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August 1[edit]
1899: A hurricane made landfall near Carrabelle, Florida, destroying most of the city and killing 7 people in the state.
1913: Ragnar Fjørtoft, a meteorologist who did pioneering work in numerical weather prediction, was born in Oslo, Norway.
1982: Typhoon Bess struck the Japanese island of Honshū, killing 59 people.