<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Vera" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Typhoon Vera">Typhoon Vera</a>, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6<span id="mwsg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>million others homeless.