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October 29

1867: The San Narciso hurricane struck the Dutch West Indies (present-day Virgin Islands) and Puerto Rico, killing at least 811 people.

1963: The outer bands of Hurricane Ginny brought an unusual snowfall to parts of Maine.

1992: The Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992 was signed into law by US president George H. W. Bush.

1998: Hurricane Mitch, after drifting off the coast for nearly a week, finally made landfall in Honduras. It would cause historic flooding over the next few days, killing as many as 18,000 people.

1999: The strongest tropical cyclone on record in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in Odisha, India, killing nearly 10,000 people.

2011: An unseasonably severe snowstorm caused dozens of deaths and record power outages in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.

2012: Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern United States as an extratropical cyclone, causing severe flooding which killed 286 people.