Jump to content

Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 18

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

December 18

[edit]

1908: Paul Siple, an antarctic explorer who proposed and helped develop the concept of wind chill, was born in Montpelier, Ohio

1957: A tornado outbreak, including three violent tornadoes, killed 17 people in Missouri and Illinois.

1959: Typhoon Gilda made landfall in the central Philippines, killing 23 people.