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August 21
[edit]1883: A tornado struck Rochester, Minnesota, killing 37. The destruction led to the founding of the Mayo Clinic.
1918: 36 people were killed when a tornado struck Tyler, Minnesota.
1950: Hurricane Able struck Atlantic Canada with winds up to 99 miles per hour (159 km/h), killing 2 people.
1994: Typhoon Fred made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing more than 1,000 people.
2007: Hurricane Dean, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall on record, struck the Yucatán Peninsula with maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour (280 km/h).
2011: A strong tornado caused major damage and killed one person in Goderich, Ontario.