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January 12

1888: The Schoolhouse Blizzard resulted in the deaths of 236 people in the northern Great Plains.

1954: A series of avalanches killed 125 people in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria, including three separate avalanches which killed 57 people in the village of Blons.

1988: Cyclone Anne made landfall on New Caledonia, killing two people. Anne was the strongest tropical cyclone to affect the French Overseas Territory on record.

2006: Cyclone Tam passed near Niuafoʻou, Tonga, but little damage was reported. The previous day, the storm dumped 293.2 millimetres (11.54 in) of rain on Rotuma, Fiji in just 24 hours, a record for the island.