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2012 Event - Following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers, Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps

2010 Event - Extreme cold temperatures across Europe lead to 122 deaths in Poland, 7 die in Switzerland as the result of an avalanche

2001 Event - Stanley Cup Finals, Colorado Avalanche beat New Jersey Devils 4 games to 3

1997 Death - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39

1997 Event - Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals

1996 Event - Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games

1996 Event - Colorado Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods

1995 Event - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit

1994 Event - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed

1988 Event - Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles

1976 Birthday - Josef Marha, born in Havl-brod, Czechoslovakia, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1975 Birthday - Anders Myrvold, Lorenskog Nor, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1975 Birthday - Adam Deadmarsh, Trail BC, NHL center, Colorado Avalanche, 1998 Olympics

1975 Birthday - Landon Wilson, St. Louis, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1974 Birthday - Stephane Yelle, Ottawa, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1973 Birthday - Peter Forsberg, born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1973 Birthday - Rene Corbet, NHL left wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1972 Birthday - Sandis Ozolinsh, Riga Lat, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1972 Birthday - Jean Francois Labbe, Sherbrooke, NHL goalie for the Colorado Avalanche

1972 Event - 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche

1972 Birthday - Chris Simon, Wawa, NHL left wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1971 Birthday - Mike Ricci, Scarborough, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1971 Birthday - Aaron Miller, born in Buffalo, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1971 Birthday - Adam Foote, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman, Colorado Avalanche, Team Canada

1970 Birthday - Stephane Fiset, Montreal, NHL goalie for the Colorado Avalanche

1970 Event - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)

1970 Event - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France)

1970 Birthday - Jon Klemm, Calgary, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1969 Birthday - Joe Sakic, Burnaby BC, NHL center, Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998

1967 Birthday - Sylvain Lefebvre, Richmond, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1967 Birthday - Scott Young, born in Clinton, Massachusetts, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1967 Birthday - Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1967 Birthday - Mike Keane, Winnipeg, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1967 Birthday - Warren Rychel, Tecumseh, NHL left wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1966 Birthday - Valeri Kamensky, born in Voskresensk, Russia, NHL left wing, Avalanche, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1965 Birthday - Patrick Roy, Quebec, NHL goalie, Mont Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche

1965 Birthday - Uwe Krupp, born in Cologne, Germany, NHL defenseman, Colorado Avalanche, Germany 98

1965 Event - 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia

1964 Birthday - Alexei Gusarov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1962 Birthday - Troy Murray, Calgary, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1962 Event - 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru

1961 Birthday - Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center, Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche

1958 Birthday - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb'

1954 Event - 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)

1953 Event - Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)

1943 Event - U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)

1943 Birthday - Eric Anderson, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vocalist, Avalanche, Be True to You

1926 Event - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die

1919 Birthday - Veda Ann Borg, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Avalanche, Accomplice

1916 Event - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol

1836 Event - Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)

1775 Event - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)

1718 Event - Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53

1618 Event - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

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