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The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
The storm then abated at Watertown, but at 2:00 pm on Sunday, visibility returned to zero. By midnight Sunday, 34 in (86 cm) of new snow had fallen since Friday, January 28, at 7:00 am. [174] The blizzard continued throughout Monday, January 31, with an additional 17 in (43 cm) of new snow before the snow stopped around 8:00 am on February 1. [174]
The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [3] The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following the local convention promoted by the Travelers Weather Service on television and radio stations there. [4] Snow fell mostly from Monday morning, February 6 to the evening of Tuesday ...
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The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
April 4 – Harry Nyquist, information theory pioneer (born 1889 in Sweden) April 5 – Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (born 1905) April 7 – Mary Margaret McBride, writer and radio host (born 1899) April 9 – Phil Ochs, protest singer-songwriter (born 1940) April 12 – Paul Ford, actor (born 1901 ...
April 5, 1976: James Callaghan selected as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom April 27, 1976: American Airlines Flight 625 overshoots runway, 37 people killed [1] April 13, 1976: U.S. revives the $2 bill on Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The following events occurred in April 1976:
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