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November 16

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1937: A plane attempting to land in bad weather near Ostend, Belgium, hit the chimney of a factory and crashed, killing several members of the Belgian royal family, including a baby born during the flight.

2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity over the Coral Sea. Flooding from the storm's rainbands eventually killed more than 140 people in Papua New Guinea.

2020: Hurricane Iota, the 31st and final tropical cyclone of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in Nicaragua with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 km/h).