On this day — October 9

Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.

Arizona.

a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York

eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.

based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.

Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.