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2012 Event - A power blackout in Northern England causes as many as 50,000 homes to have a power blackout after heavy winds, snow and ice bring down electricity cables

2011 Event - Millions lose power after the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States are struck by a rare October snow storm

2011 Event - Snow on New Zealand's North and South Islands disrupts power supplies, causes road closures and closure of the Wellington International Airport

2011 Event - A state of emergency due to snow is declared in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota

2010 Event - Paris closes the Eiffel Tower due to snow

2008 Death - Tony Snow, dies in Washington, D.C., of colon cancer, at 53

1999 Death - Hank Snow, Canadian Musician

1997 Event - San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

1997 Death - Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70

1997 Death - Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89

1994 Event - 14" of snow in Southern California

1993 Event - "Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe" closes at Palace New York City after 7 performances

1993 Event - "Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 7 performances

1992 Death - Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, Dutch writer (Snow White), dies at 80

1989 Event - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles

1987 Event - Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine

1987 Event - "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands

1986 Event - 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8

1986 Birthday - Brittany Snow, American Actress

1985 Event - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow

1984 Event - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana

1982 Event - 36" snow Red Lodge, Montana

1982 Event - 75% of North America is covered by snow

1980 Death - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75

1980 Event - Snow falls in Florida

1979 Event - Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City

1979 Event - Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow

1979 Event - Snow falls in Sahara Desert

1973 Birthday - Eric Snow, NBA guard, Philadelphia 76ers, Seattle Supersonics

1972 Death - Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66

1971 Event - John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs

1970 Event - 70 die in a snow crush (France)

1969 Birthday - Garth Snow, born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, U.S. hockey goalie, Olympics-1994, Flyers

1968 Birthday - J T Snow, U.S. baseball 1st baseman, New York Yankees, California Angels

1968 Birthday - J T Snow, born in Long Beach, California, infielder, New York Yankees, California Angels

1967 Birthday - Percy Snow, WLAF linebacker for the Rhein Fire

1966 Event - Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165

1963 Event - Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow

1962 Event - Snow falls in San Francisco

1959 Event - Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48

1958 Birthday - Madeleine Stowe, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Tropical Snow, Bad Girls

1958 Event - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line

1957 Birthday - Don Snow, born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1992, changed name to John Savannah, musician, guitarist, drummer, saxophonist, toured with Van Morrison, member of Squeeze, Procol Harum, played Hammond organs, piano

1955 Birthday - Tony Snow, born in Kentucky, political commentator, columnist, radio, television news anchor, White House Press Secretary

1955 Event - Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race

1954 Event - Snow falls on Gibraltar

1953 Birthday - Catlin O'Heaney, born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, actress, Snow White-Charmings

1952 Birthday - Phoebe Snow, singer, Theme from "It's a Different World"

1952 Event - Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26

1950 Event - Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"

1947 Event - Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F

1947 Event - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow

1947 Birthday - Jon Snow, British TV journalist, Channel 4

1946 Event - 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA

1945 Event - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)

1941 Birthday - John Snow, cricketer, fiery England quickie Unpopular with Aussies

1939 Birthday - John W. Snow, American Economist

1937 Event - 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)

1937 Event - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City

1931 Birthday - Donald Barthelme, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, writer, Snow White, Sadness

1931 Birthday - Donald Barthelme, U.S., writer, Snow White

1922 Event - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

1918 Event - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

1914 Birthday - Hank Snow, Nova Scotia, Canada, country singer, I Went to Your Wedding

1910 Event - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die

1910 Event - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history

1907 Birthday - Helen Foster Snow, writer

1905 Birthday - Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail

1905 Birthday - Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China

1903 Birthday - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer, Snow Was Black

1895 Event - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans

1891 Birthday - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow

1890 Event - Snow and hail in Calais, ME

1889 Birthday - Moroni Olsen, born in Ogden, Utah, actor, Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White

1889 Event - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

1887 Event - Snow falls on San Francisco

1886 Birthday - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer, Snow Dusting

1883 Birthday - Marguerite Clark, voice, Snow White

1882 Event - 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa

1880 Event - 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

1880 Event - Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm

1879 Event - January record 13" of snow falls in New York City (broken Jan 7, 1996)

1877 Birthday - Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter, Under the Snow

1876 Birthday - Maurice de Vlaminck, born in Paris, Fauvist painter, Village in the Snow

1875 Event - Latest date for measurable snow in New York City (3")

1864 Birthday - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretsjaninow, Russian/US composer, Snow White

1855 Event - Western railroads blocked by snow

1836 Event - 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater, New York

1825 Death - John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84













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