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Apocalyptic storms batter the South with baseball-size hail, multiple lightning strikes and funnel clouds - and there's more to come

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 10, 2024
Powerful storms with damaging high winds threatened several states in the Southeast early Friday, as residents elsewhere in the U.S. cleared debris from deadly severe weather that produced twisters in Michigan, Tennessee and other states. Baseball-sized hailstones pelted Texas , with alarming photographs showing the frozen spheres at least five inches in diameter.

On the day of Diana's death, Richard Branson made sure rugby league was the only sport played in the United Kingdom

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 31, 2022
Princess Diana's (right) tragic death in 1997 brought the entire nation Kingdom into mourning, and only one sporting match was allowed to be played in the aftermath: a Super League game (inset) starring Australian NRL stars organised by Sir Richard Branson (pictured left with Diana). Her death stunned the world when the beloved Royal figure died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997; one of the first British government's first moves was to call off all sporting clashes that day.