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January 2

1960: The highest temperature in Australian history, 50.7 °C (123.3 °F), was recorded at Oodnadatta, South Australia.

1976: A severe gale began affecting western Europe, bringing wind gusts of more than 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) to the British Isles.

1999: A blizzard brought up to 18.6 inches (47 cm) of snow to Chicago, its largest one-day snowfall total on record. The storm would bring heavy snow and record low temperatures to a large portion of the Midwestern United States and southern Canada over the next several days.

2013: Mountaineer Ian McKeever was struck and killed by lightning while hiking on Mount Kilimanjaro.