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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 1996 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing fourth in the American League West with a record of 70 wins and 91 losses. The season was notable for being the final season the franchise bore the "California Angels" moniker, as the team name was changed to "Anaheim Angels" the following season.
The Angels were created in 1960 as part of a boom in baseball coming to the state of California. They were the third California MLB team to play in the state but the first non-relocated team to play there. Gene Autry was the first owner of the franchise, having bought the rights in 1960. The inaugural season for the team resulted in seventy ...
Nearly half of the 65.5 inches of snow that fell in the 1995-1996 snow season came courtesy of the Blizzard of '96. The 27.6 inches the storm brought on Jan. 7 remains the greatest single-day ...
It's been a few years since central Pennsylvania has seen a whopping snowfall. Some might remember the Blizzard of 1996, when more than two feet of snow fell, closing businesses for a week and ...
Due to the move, the franchise was known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996 and the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004. "Los Angeles" was added back to the name in 2005, but because of a lease agreement with Anaheim that required the city to also be in the name, the franchise was known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim until 2015.
The third snow survey of the water season — which began Oct. 1 — showed “continued improvement” to the state’s snowpack, according to a news release from the California Department of ...
1996 California Angels season; 1996 Los Angeles Dodgers season; M. Jeffrey Maier incident; 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1996 Milwaukee Brewers season;