October 27[edit]

1920: Seymour Hess, an extraterrestrial meteorologist who issued the first ever weather report for Mars, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

1959: An unnamed hurricane, the deadliest and one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, struck Mexico near Manzanillo, Colima, killing around 1800 people.

2013: Cyclone Christian, also known as the "St. Jude Storm", struck northwestern Europe, killing 17 people.