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October 2
 * 1880 – A cone-shaped F3 tornado lifted a house in southwestern Eaton County, Michigan and threw it 200 ft, killing two children inside. The tornado's roar could be heard 6 mi away.
 * 1894 – An F3 tornado skipped through the Little Rock, Arkansas area, killing four people, including a doctor at a mental hospital, who died when a mass of metal crashed through three floors. Twenty-six people were injured.
 * 2011 – Two tornadoes touched down in South Africa. One struck Duduza, Gauteng killing a child and injuring 160 other people; may poorly-built homes were destroyed. The other hit Ficksburg, Free State, killing another child and injuring 40 people. More than 1,000 structures were destroyed.