“As described in the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena, by W. Corliss, New England was plunged into almost total darkness at mid-day, May 19, 1780. Smoke from huge forest fires in Canada was the presumed cause, but no one knows for sure.” [Sky Watch]

On the actual day I was born, New Mexico experienced its greatest rainfall ever recorded: 11.28 inches in 24 hours at Lake Maloya, on the Colorado border.