St. Valentine’s Blizzard strikes Boston.

Thirty-one people die in the two-day storm in which snow falls at the rate of one inch per hour for the first nine hours and eventually totals 14 inches. Winds reach 60 m.p.h. Public transportation is delayed and some 10,000 commuters are forced to spend the night at South Station. Mayor Tobin is forced to hire some 17,000 men for three days to shove the city out from the snow.