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On this day, Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started.
Thu Jan 27, 2022: On this day, Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started.
Mon Jan 27, 2020: On Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started.
The following night, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed. The death toll was 98. It was the biggest snowstorm in recorded DC history.
Knickerbocker storm
Weather map for the morning of January 28, 1922
Type: Extratropical cyclone; Blizzard
Formed: January 27, 1922
Dissipated: January 29, 1922
Fatalities: 98 fatalities, 133 injured
Areas affected: Mid-Atlantic states of the United States
The Knickerbocker storm was a blizzard on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and the middle Atlantic United States. The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28, which killed 98 people and injured 133.
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Weather map for the morning of January 28, 1922
Type: Extratropical cyclone; Blizzard
Formed: January 27, 1922
Dissipated: January 29, 1922
Fatalities: 98 fatalities, 133 injured
Areas affected: Mid-Atlantic states of the United States
The Knickerbocker storm was a blizzard on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and the middle Atlantic United States. The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28, which killed 98 people and injured 133.
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I will have a lot more to say about this tomorrow. I made an edit to the Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.) Wikipedia page two days ago.