How the Knickerbocker snowstorm became D.C.’s deadliest disaster 100 years ago Nearly 100 people died as the roof on the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed from a record-setting snowfall of more ...

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 28 — the 100th anniversary of the tragedy — he and Kevin Ambrose, author of a book on the Knickerbocker disaster, will stand across from where the theater once stood and ...

The Knickerbocker Theater disaster, which took place on this day in 1922, killed 98 moviegoers and injured another 133. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.

Blizzard of 1922: Knickerbocker Theater Disaster. Watch on . The rescue effort continued into the afternoon of Sunday, January 29. That day, news of the tragedy hit front pages around the world.

2. 100th anniversary of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster. 🤍 On January 28, 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater, located in today’s Adams Morgan Plaza, collapsed under the weight of 28 ...

Exactly 100 years ago, D.C. suffered its deadliest single-day peacetime disaster when the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapsed under a record 28 inches of snow, killing 98 people.

B ut that evening, the weight of this feet of snow on Washington, D.C.'s Knickerbocker Theater caused the roof to split, collapse and take down a balcony during the showing of a silent movie.