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The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940.The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
PHOTOS: Vintage Armistice Day celebrations in Fort Worth from the 1930s, 1940s. ... Armistice Day Parade in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 11, 1938, marked 20 years after the end of World War I. ...
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1940 Ship State Description Anna C. Minch: Canada: Armistice Day Blizzard : The cargo ship broke in two and sank in Lake Michigan with the loss of all 24 crew. Ardmore United Kingdom: The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Great Saltee Island, County Wexford, Ireland with the loss of all eighteen crew ...
Armistice Day Blizzard surface map. The Armistice Day Blizzard was a winter storm that occurred on November 11–12, 1940 which brought heavy snow and winds up to 80 mph. The lake freighter SS William B. Davock sank with all 33 hands in Lake Michigan south of Pentwater, Michigan.
SS Anna C. Minch was a cargo carrier which foundered, broke in two, and sank in Lake Michigan during the Armistice Day Blizzard on 11 November 1940. The Anna C. Minch was a steam-powered, steel-hulled bulk freighter constructed in 1903 by the American Ship Building Company at Cleveland, Ohio.
Services held every 11 November to mourn British soldiers killed in First World War and all subsequent conflicts
In the United States, President Woodrow Wilson hailed the first Armistice Day celebration on 11 November 1919, although it would not be formalised by Congress until 1926. France followed suit in ...
The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. [1]