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"This Day In Weather History" is a daily podcast by The Weather Network that features unique and informative stories from host Chris Mei. Weather Happens Everyday. It can be sunny, cloudy, stormy or maybe just unsettled, but it is always happening! It’s when severe weather strikes that it captures the attention of those affected ...and the imagination of everyone else who follows the story. So it is with good reason to expect that after over a century of news and weather information gathering and record keeping, there would be a "special" weather or natural phenomena event to mark each day of a calendar. Do you remember the first recorded tornado in Canadian history? No, you don’t because none of us were there...so we dive into that! How about when Prince played the Super Bowl halftime show? It’s possible the best performance ever for that event….and the backstory made it all the more special! Or how about the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Festival back in 1994? Bands like Green Day and Nine Inch Nails were only 2 albums into their young careers, but how they adapted to the weather conditions is what instantly made their performances not only legendary, but also catapulted them into mainstream stardom. It’s all here - all year - in one podcast.... "This Day In Weather History"!

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    June 1 - The TDiWH Anniversary Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 14:19


    Today is a special longer-length episode where we will look back at how this all came to be and what goes into the production of a podcast.  Especially one that deals with only weather and "weather adjacencies." and I'll explain whatever the hell that even means as well. Let's celebrate!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 31 - The Barrie-GrandValley-Tottenham Tornadoes of 1985

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 7:48


     It was originally known as the Barrie Tornado given that they took by far the hardest hit and suffered the highest casualty numbers and they were the biggest city affected when compared to Grand Valley and Tottenham who also were beaten to a pulp by an F4 and suffered deaths as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 30 - The Ugly Disasters of "Vanport" Oregon USA

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 7:01


    I will caution you up front that many of the details in today's story are very troubling and therefore listener discretion is advised.  "Vanport" is not a painful trigger word for so many because of any ghost story, or any calamitous disaster—that will be our primary story to come later; this town will forever have a dark cloud over its memory because of raw, unabashed racism.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 29 - The Tragic 1914 "Empress of Ireland" Shipwreck

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2022 6:00


    This shipwreck didn't happen at sea, It was also not even on the sometimes deadly waters of  Great Lakes and it also didn't even happen in stormy weather. May 29, 1914 the passenger ship The Empress of Ireland was traveling in the St. Lawrence river, off Rimouski, in the province of Quebec.  However, at the same time and In the same waters was a Norwegian ship named the Storsdad. I think you can see where this is going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 28 - The 1900 Solar Eclipse for the Ages

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2022 7:02


    Among the excited skywatchers were teams of scientists and volunteers who stood ready to document a variety of atmospheric conditions with the hope of advancing meteorological science. They not only had a perfect location but they forecast an area with ideal weather conditions for viewing the eclipse along much of its incredible over 1500KM track!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 27 - Toronto Islands Flooding at Peak Levels

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 6:43


    The City of Toronto deployed more than 45,000 sandbags, 1,000 metre bags, and more than a dozen industrial pumps to try to control and in any way lessen the effects of the rising water. But now there were reports surfacing of water coming up through the ground inland from any shoreline.  Land liquefaction!! This was getting real bad, real fast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 26 - Soccer Ball Sized Hail leads to a Terrifying 2003 Flight

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2022 6:41


    The plane pitched and rolled violently as it ran into this severe inter-cloud turbulence with huge hailstones pounding the exterior.  One passenger said that it felt like a showering of bullets and then came a mighty thump. What hit this plane? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 25 - Lightning Hits 11 People at a 1996 Picnic

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 6:31


    One of those hit by a bolt at this picnic was Florida high school student Ernie Perez.  He was thankful to be alive after being struck down by a lightning bolt during a family picnic, leaving him with those tell-tale fascinating burn marks on his neck and shoulder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 24 - The 1973 Union City Tornado That Made History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 6:44


    This was the first tornado widely documented by science as part of a storm chasing field research. You heard me right, this started the Storm Chasers!! This was out of Norman, Oklahoma where they placed teams of storm chasers around it to capture its life cycle on film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 23 - The 2012 Timmins-9 Wildfire

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 6:16


    The Timmins 9  grew to 39,524 hectares, resulting in the evacuations of areas around both Timmins and Gogama.  Evacuations had also been underway in Kirkland Lake as well.  This was the largest wildfire this area had experienced in decades.   But again, it was closing in on city centres so it was now national headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 22 - The 2011 Deadly and Destructive Joplin EF5

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2022 7:25


    Tornadoes are fierce and unpredictable.  Chasers know this all too well.  Especially those who came back with research and images from the EF5 that crushed Joplin Missouri in 2001 and those 200 MPH winds literally picked up the air-lift helicopter and blew it away on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 21 - The 1953 F4 Tornado that Struck Sarnia, Ontario

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2022 6:22


    The rain had started light in the early evening but much heavier bands set in fast and downtown had a storm of walnut sized hail unleashed on them. But then at 5:45 p.m. an F4 rated Tornado hit Sarnia straight on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 20 - The 2013 Deadly Moore, OK EF5 Tornado

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 7:40


    Today's story is as shocking for the sheer devastation of property as it is because of its toll on human life. This was to be a storm that would prove to be bigger than anyone could have feared; from the moment of that first alert, there was a watch or warning of some type in effect somewhere in the NWS Norman county warning area for what would go on to be nearly 30 hours straight!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 19 - New England's “Darkest Day” in 1780

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2022 7:20


    The Dark Day, as it is known, happened on May 19, way back in the year 1780 in New England...as well as the eastern parts of an English territory that would one day come to be known as Canada.  Midway through the morning of this day in weather history, the sky turned a creepy jaundice-yellow. Animals began to run for cover and the darkness started to overtake the land. By noon, it was night. What Happened? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 18 - That 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 7:16


    It was on the morning of May 18, this day in weather history, when Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0 magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain. The giant landslide of rock and ice, one of the largest recorded in history, was followed by and then actually overtaken by an enormous explosion of steam and volcanic gases, which surged northward along the ground at high speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 17 - The Crash That Cancelled the 2001 Opening of a New Airport

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2022 5:48


    The Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40, suddenly found itself flying through what had become rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.  The rain got real heavy real fast, but then it was struck by a bolt of lightning that was suspected to have possibly knocked out its navigational equipment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 16 - Extra! Extra! There is a HOLE in The Ozone Layer!!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 7:09


    It came from three scientists from the British Antarctic Survey who made the chilling announcement of what they had found. This discovery became a look into the mirror for all humans of its ability to damage the Earth's atmosphere. But in the decades that have followed, this near extinction level event, became one of the most famous success stories in the history of climate activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 15 - The 1951 Hurricane Able

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2022 6:16


    The season overall was already awake as we had already registered one tropical cyclone but this was the first hurricane of 1951, and seeing as how the letter A opens up the alphabet, we had a storm named Able.  Later, on May 22, Hurricane Able reached its peak wind speeds for its lifespan when it hit 90 mph (150 km/h) about 70 miles (115 km) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 14 - The VERY Late 1986 Season Southern Alberta Blizzard

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2022 7:01


    There were only 5 more weeks to go to the first official day of Summer! On Wednesday, May 14, back in 1986, a very late season snowstorm made its way through Calgary that overwhelmed most of southern Alberta. The freak storm caused power lines to fall, there were power outages associated with that, plus the roads were a disaster with poor driving conditions, and it closed schools! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 13 - Rare and Early 2014 Southern Ontario Tornadoes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 5:58


    This was confirmed by Environment Canada as Ontario's first tornado of the 2014 season! This outbreak was seen long in advance and it was warned by Canada's Governing Body for weather and climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 12 - 1997 Mayhem in Miami with a Madcapped Twister

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2022 6:12


    They called it the Great Miami Tornado of 1997, but that was really, a bit of a stretch.  It was an F1 tornado, so people in Oklahoma and Kansas were likely reading about it in the next days paper, thinking “oh how adorable”. It showed up like a proper Miami celebrity.  It made possible some of the most haunting pictures which actually became the subject of worldwide media coverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 11 - Welcome to the 1934 “Dust Bowl”

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2022 7:17


    That year, a severe drought spread across the region. Crops were scorched and withered and died.  And as that spread like a virus to the entire Great Plains collection of States, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The over-plowed and abused land was too weak to recover and there was no rain so it was hopeless. It was so intense and so dangerous that it forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 10 - The 2010 Norman Oklahoma Tornado Story

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2022 6:42


    In this onslaught, there were over 60 tornadoes! Some of these twisters were large and multi-vortex in nature, meaning they had several centres of rotation within one massive system of rotation.  Think tornadoes within tornadoes!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    May 9 - The 2019 "Snow-mencement" at the University of Colorado

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 6:46


    On Thursday May 9th, 2019, this version of their outdoor commencement service got walloped with up to 3 inches of snow, over 7.5 cm of snow on that field, on that day and on those 20,000+ people in Boulder at the University of Colorado. This is one of my favorite episodes of this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 8 - The ‘Super Derecho' of 2009

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022 6:58


    This system caused multiple wind gusts that averaged around 70 mph (over 110kph) with other incidents reported of isolated gusts clocking over 90 mph (145kph) along its destructive path. On the ground, the wind storm produced significant and often fiercely continuous pounding that spread damage over a far reaching stretch that spanned the high plains of western Kansas through the foothills of the Appalachians in eastern Kentucky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 7 - In 1902 a Martinique Mainstay was Wiped off the Map

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2022 6:51


    On May 7, 1902, Martinique's Mount Pelée began the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. The complacency of the citizens played a role in the massive loss of life. When It hit, it hit hard.  The following day, the city of Saint Pierre, which I can attest to, lives up to its billing as “the Paris of the Caribbean”, was wiped off the map. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 6 - The Epic 2017 BC Flooding

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 6:18


    On May 4, 2017, a massive storm rolled through the valley, bringing so much rain that Mill Creek spilled its banks and nearby homes and businesses were flooded.  As a result of this, on may 6th, a state of emergency was called for Kelowna and West Kelowna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 5 - 1110 - The Night the Moon Disappeared

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 6:40


    From the Peterborough (England) Chronicle on May 5, 1110: "On the fifth night of the month of May the moon appeared shining brightly in the evening, and afterwards his light waned by little and little, and early in the night he was so wholly gone that neither light, nor circle, nor anything at all of him was to be seen, and thus it continued till near day, and then he appeared shining full and bright ; he was a fortnight old the same day : the sky was very clear all the night, and the stars shone very brightly all over the heavens, and the fruit trees were greatly injured by that night's frost." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 4 - The 1971 Quebec Landslide

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 6:18


    On May 4th, at about 10:45 p.m., part of a town near Saguenay, Quebec dropped 30 metres.  The crater it cut out was 300 metres across and more than 30 metres deep. It created a deep channel through which a river of liquefied clay flowed, and it swallowed 30 homes, 15 cars and a bus!! A total of 31 people were killed, most of whom were trapped in their swallowed homes or cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 3 - The Terrifying Fort McMurray Evacuations Begins

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 7:16


    On May 3, the fire swiftly blew through Fort McMurray and that prompted the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes all of a sudden. The scenes were chaotic. There were very well coordinated escape caravans but the fire was swallowing up routes as fast as they were being designated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 2 - 2019 and Ottawa River's Highest Level Ever

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 6:58


    On May 1, the Ottawa River crested 30 cm above 2017's peak flood levels.  As an immediate response to this, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson issued a State of Emergency on April 25. It was lifted on June 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    May 1 - Happy Anniversary Environment Canada!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 7:41


    They are Canada's authoritative source for severe-weather alerts and weather, water, ice, and climate data.  As a matter of fact, in times of crises that cause enough of a stir for it to be remembered as a memorable day in weather history their team of meteorologists and hydrologists work around the clock to monitor and predict hazards like the two flooding stories I just presented to you on this podcast yesterday in Manitoba and the day before in Quebec. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 30 - The 1997 Red River “Flood of the Century”

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2022 7:00


    The amount of water that this spring unleashed on the areas lining the river in this valley back in the spring of 1997 was enough for it to be labeled “The Flood Of The Century”! This covered over 2 thousand 500 square kilometres of land -- in water -- and that forced the evacuation of a staggering 28,000 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 29 - Spring Flooding: Quebec's Major Weather Event of 2019

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2022 5:21


    By the next day, April 30th, 2019... 9,070 homes and 273 businesses were flooded, and as a result there were now 12,000 people displaced. In the area affected, we also had 82 landslides linked to the flooding as well as the roads and highways I mentioned in the intro. In total, there were 310 municipalities across Quebec that were affected by the flooding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 28 - Baseball Sized Hail at a Baseball Game!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 5:52


    The hailstones ballooned to 2.75" (7cm) diameter which we term “baseball sized”. THIS system starting pitching baseball sized hail all around, before it crossed the Missouri River into St. Louis County. Meanwhile, about 100 people were injured and one person was killed when a tent collapsed on a crowd that was gathered outside Busch Stadium after a Cardinals game at a nearby sports bar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 27 - The 2008 Fort Albany Flooding & Evacuations

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 6:17


    On Sunday, April 27, 2008, residents of Fort Albany, a First Nations community primarily made up of women and children, were forced to flee what were now the worst floods since 1985.  Because of the rapid ice breakup on the river they now had mighty ice flows racing down stream at a force that burst through the dikes, thrusting river water up, over and on to the mainland of the reserve where the 900 residents lived.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 26 - The 1991 Deadly and Destructive "Andover F5"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2022 7:02


    This outbreak would go on to result in 21 people being killed, 17 of which were from the Andover tornado. But the Wichita-Andover tornado was actually the 3rd in a series of 4 tornadoes that pushed through South Central KS. F5 damage also occurred across the southern part of Andover where large frame homes were demolished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 25 - 2015 Saw Mount Everest's Deadliest Avalanche

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 7:01


    In the avalanche a cascade of snow, ice and rock raced down the mountain, through the populated area known as “base-camp” and in it at least twenty-two people were killed.  This made this event the new deadliest disaster on the mountain. The 7.8 magnitude quake would be blamed for the death of more than 5,000 people, and the injuries suffered by an additional 10,000 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 24 - The 2018 Record New Brunswick Flooding

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 6:55


    Floods have been part of recorded history in New Brunswick for over 300 years.  They date back as far as 1696, when the first written record told of a late, very high spring water level that delayed crop planting for the residents of a small French settlement at Jemseg. In 2018, The Saint John river overflowed its banks and water levels crested to over 27 feet (8 ¼ meters) in Fredericton by May 1. The rush of water closed 50 streets in the city and forced hundreds of residents from their homes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 23 - Ranger 4's 1962 Launch to "Shoot The Moon"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2022 6:37


    On Monday, Apr. 23, 1962, NASA launched the Ranger 4 into space. The Ranger 4 spacecraft, was especially designed to collect data on interplanetary space, but more to the point it was to photograph the moon up close and make a rough landing on the lunar surface, this was for reconnaissance for a future manned mission there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 22 - 1970 and The First Ever Earth Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 6:38


    It was the brainchild of Wisconsin Senator, Gaylord Nelson who was an unabashed environmentalist whose hope was that by creating a lightning rod of attention he could create a rallying unity to grassroots environmental awareness. We can dream all we want of living on other planets but until we become a totally different species of human, dreaming is as far as we will ever get so let's make sure we make the best of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 21 - The 1998 "Rain-Out Triple Play" at Dodgers Stadium

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2022 6:50


    Legendary Dodger Stadium was built on top of the historic Los Angeles neighbourhood of Chavez Ravine in Solano Canyon. Get this, before the start of their 1976 season, the Dodgers were rained out only once, and that was against the St. Louis Cardinals, on April 21, 1967, ending a streak of 737 consecutive games without a postponement at that time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 20 - The 1996 Shock Ontario Tornado Outbreak

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 6:37


    On the 19th, there were seventeen F2 or greater tornadoes that touched down and that included a jaw-dropping ten in the state of Illinois alone. In Canada, the first tornado that touched down hit the ground running for a staggering 40 kilometres southeast of Owen Sound. A second tornado then touched down farther south and ripped for a 60 kilometre track from Arthur to just southwest of Barrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 19 - The 1904 "Great Fire of Toronto"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 6:51


    This was a multi alarm fire involving a total of 17 fire halls, two engine companies and one hose company.  They came from stations as far away as Hamilton, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, to help save Toronto.  The glow of the fire could be seen for miles in all directions and it took close to nine hours to get under control.  A mystery still surrounds this tale because they never did establish the exact cause of the fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 18 -First Enhanced Fujita Scale Tornado in CDN History

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 6:57


    A twister touched down in a rural area locally and packed powerful 135 to 167 km/h wind speeds. It was now historical as the first to be recorded as an Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale tornado in Canadian history. And it was rated EF1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 17 - The Alberta Blizzard Blitz in Centennial '67

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 6:46


    In some areas, after the full series, there was reported to have been as much as 175 cm of snow. What is that to you and me? That is also known as 5 feet 9 inches of snow!! Because these storms hit while we were getting later into April, many cattle were already out in the pastures.  This was a big problem when you consider over 51/2 feet of snow and the obvious sustained cold that would have accompanied such an event.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 16 - Ice Crashes Through Rogers Centre Roof from the CN Tower

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2022 6:32


    The entrance to the CN Tower and to the Rogers Centre were promptly closed and a section of sidewalk out front of the affected buildings was also closed off for all pedestrian traffic. The Rogers Centre was far from the only building to have been damaged in this, however. Damage from the ice was also reported to other surrounding buildings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 15 - THE most Intense Snowfall Ever in USA!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2022 7:18


    The Denver Post reported that, with a total snowfall of almost a foot, along with around 45mm of mixing, of which it was primarily rain, it was reported that the April 14-15 storm was the second worst April blizzard since 1885. Because of the strong winds, the snow drifted to a depth of 7 feet (over 2 meters) in many parts of the metro.  The storm was the worst in 5 years at Colorado Springs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 14 - French Winegrowers Battle Frost for 2019 Vintage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2022 6:33


    Following a frost alert on April 14, winemakers of Chassagne-Montrachet lit fires and heaters to fight the frost. As temperatures then dropped moderately below that 32 F threshold, with a relatively low humidity, luckily damage was limited.  Yet, winemakers trying to limit frost damage on their vines employ a variety of heating techniques to keep their crops warm. Some got "inventive". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 13 - That CRAZY Easter Weekend 140-Tornado Outbreak

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022 7:23


    It was widespread and it was deadly, the Easter weekend tornado outbreak that brutalized the Southeast US. Several tornadoes were ultimately responsible for triggering tornado emergency declarations, including the very first of its kind to be issued by the National Weather Service in Charleston, South Carolina.  Throughout the two-day outbreak, a total of 140 tornadoes touched down across 10 states, causing  widespread and locally catastrophic damage.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    April 12 - 1981: The Space Shuttle Program (literally) Launches!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 6:37


    The initial launch date was scheduled for April 10, 1981 and with the first launch of the Space Transportation System (STS), better known as the "space shuttle". The shuttle was humankind's first reusable spacecraft. The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane.  The STS-1 crew consisted of Commander John W. Young and Pilot Bob Crippen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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