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July 27

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1943: Colonel Joe Duckworth became the first man to fly into the eye of a tropical cyclone, taking his AT-6 Texan training plane into the 1943 Surprise Hurricane twice.

1989: Typhoon Judy struck southern Kyushu, Japan, killing 11 people in the country due to significant flooding and landslides.

2010: Heavy rains that would last for four days began across much of Pakistan, causing historic flooding that would kill more than 1,700 people.