2011 Event Typhoon Muifa approaches Japan's island of Okinawa; the typhoon is expected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit China in recent years 2009 Event Typhoon Morakat approaches southeastern China, over one million people are evacuated 1996 Event Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth 1993 Event "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances 1992 Event Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup 1983 Event Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth 1983 Event Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth 1980 Event U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn 1961 Event Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth 1930 Event Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth 1927 Event Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth 1864 Event Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth 1853 Event Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth 1835 Event HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin approaches New Zealand 1805 Event Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth 1797 Event Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth 1760 Event Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth 1743 Event Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth 1702 Event Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth 1366 Event Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth 837 Event Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth 607 Event Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth 374 Event Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth