2005 Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
2004 Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30
2004 Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage.
1997 Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat New York Islanders 4-1
1992 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured
1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1991 Hurricane Bob hits U.S.
1991 Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind
1990 West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1989 Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1988 Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan
1985 Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas
1983 Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1980 Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas
1980 Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
1980 Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean
1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage
1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1978 Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1975 Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S.
1974 Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1974 Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1972 Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm and Hurricane), commits suicide
1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972 Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in New York and Florida
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1970 Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1970 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas
1966 Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida and Mexico
1966 Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1965 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75
1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
1965 Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss and La
1964 Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss and Ga
1963 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti
1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured
1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas
1955 Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland
1955 Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti
1955 Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.)
1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage
1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding U.S. for 11 days
1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
1954 Hurricane Hazel strikes U.S. and Canada, 348 die
1954 Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern U.S.
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage
1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20
1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1949 Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player, 2X world-champ
1944 Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
1944 Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
1944 Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
1938 Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1928 Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama, kills 372
1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
1921 Hurricane hits Washington and Oregon
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1915 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1915 Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)
1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC
1893 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1891 Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
1886 Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas
1881 Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die
1877 Hurricane strikes Curaeao and Bonaire kills 200
1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
1837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
1831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City
1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1780 Barbados hurricane begins
1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1694 Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in U.S., Jamestown, Virginia
1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die
1635 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1551 Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1528 Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
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