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Tropical Cyclone Anniversaries:
July 29,
1982 - Typhoon Bess(pictured) reaches its peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). Bess impacted Japan which killed 95 people and damaged about US$2.3 billion.
2011 - Tropical Storm Nock-ten(pictured) makes landfall over in Luzon, Philippines where it killed 75 people with damages of US$65.7 million in the country alone.
July 26, 1926 - The 1926 Nassau hurricane(track pictured) reached its peak intensity with winds of 220km/h (140mph) over the central Bahamas. The hurricane killed 287 people and devastated Nassau.
July 25
1927 - A typhoon moved ashore near Hong Kong and killed about 10,000people from floods.
2002 - Hurricane Elida became the first of three Category 5 major hurricanes of the season. Elida had maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph) and a minimum pressure of 921 hPa (27.20 inHg) out in the East Pacific.
July 24,
1979 - Tropical Storm Claudette(pictured) made landfall near the Texas-Louisianan border, bringing record levels of rainfall. The resulting floods caused about $400million of damage.
2005 - Tropical Storm Gert becomes the fourth of seven tropical cyclones to make landfall over in Mexico. As a weak tropical storm, Gert only killed one person and caused minimal damages.
1866 – Aged 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a United States government commission for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the Capitol rotunda.