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1955: The Hunter Valley flood began with a major levee failure near Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.

1979: The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned the first close-up images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an extraterrestrial vortex that is the largest storm in the Solar System.

1995: Cyclone Bobby made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia, eventually bringing up to 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain to the Goldfields-Esperance region.

2004: Cyclone Ivy reached peak intensity over the Vanuatu archipelago, where it killed two people.