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This Day in Minnesota History

January 12, 1888

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ISBN: 0873514165
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A major blizzard strikes the state, hitting western Minnesota especially hard and causing the deaths of between 100 and 150 people, many of them children on their way home from school.

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First published: July 1, 2015
Last modified: January 12, 2019