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July 8

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1680: A probable tornado killed one person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first known tornado fatality in North America.

1980: Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan due to turbulence caused by thermals during a heat wave, killing all 166 people on board.