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October 2

1858: A hurricane hit San Diego, California, the only known hurricane ever to strike the Pacific coast of the United States.

1898: The strongest hurricane on record to strike the U.S. state of Georgia made landfall on Cumberland Island, killing 179 people in the state.

1966: The ESSA-3 weather satellite was launched.

1970: A weak but wet tropical depression began to drop heavy rain across the northeastern Caribbean Sea; particularly in Puerto Rico. Parts of the island would receive more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain over the next week, the most on record for any tropical cyclone in the area.

1989: Typhoon Brian made landfall in Hainan in southern China, damaging 185,000 homes and killing 40 people.