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When Weather Changed History 2

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The second in an innovative series spotlighting the weather that has quite literally changed our world. See how an unseasonably hot, dry spell in 1871 leads to a catastrophic fire in Chicago, when strong winds fuel a small barn fire, causing it to erupt into an inferno that nearly destroys the city. On Sept 8, 1900 one storm forever changed the Gulf Coast. Stronger than Hurricane Andrew, more deadly than Hurricane Katrina, the September 11th attacks and the Chicago Fire combined, it was the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. A thunderstorm caused the golden age of airships to come to a fiery halt when the Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed. The D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944 was the Allies one chance: good weather will be crucial to their success. And on a moonless night in 1912, one iceberg surrounded by a sea of unusual calm sank the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic.