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Minnesota wildlife artist Michael Sieve painted “Armistice Day Blizzard” to convey the raging storm that caught Minnesota duck hunters by surprise on Nov. 11, 1940, particularly those along ...
Helen Linder and Mildren Rhyme were able to skirt a large drift as they walked by the Quast building along Second Avenue in downtown Hutchinson following the Armistice Day Blizzard, Nov. 11, 1940.
So was the case during November of 1940 when the famed Armistice Day Blizzard dropped a veritable “bomb” of winter on Minnesota. It was Nov. 11, 1940. Today we call it Veterans Day, ...
FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze ...
The Armistice Day blizzard of Nov. 11-12, 1940, was one of the worst storms ever to strike the Upper Midwest area. Property damage was estimated at $1,500,000 and thousands of cars were marooned ...
Nov. 11, 1940: Known as the Armistice Day blizzard, the storm killed 154 people in the Upper Midwest, including 49 Minnesotans, many of whom were bird hunters who froze to death after getting ...
The second week of November has a long history of powerful storms in the nation’s midsection, including the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald storm and the 1940 Armistice Day blizzard.
Nov. 11, 1940. The Armistice Day Blizzard came on what had been a mild day, with many people out and about amid temperatures in the mid-50s. Snowdrifts up to 20 feet high buried cars and severely ...
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This Armistice Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, the Syracuse Chapter of Veterans for Peace (VFP) and the Beyond War and Militarism Committee (BW&M), a joint committee of the Syracuse Peace Council ...