Well, for one couple in Iowa this was a major deal. Both couples married on November 20th, 1947, and while one couple married at Westminster Abbey, Gerald and Dorothy Beck married in Elkader.
On February 3, 1996, the town of Elkader, in Clayton County, tied a state record with a frigid temperature of -47*.
**The town of Washta (Cherokee County) also claims that it was also -47* in 1912.
A day later, the city of Tower, MN, set a record of -60*...