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Did a tornado almost change music history?

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If you noticed the listings of cities in the “Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes” table, you may have caught the fact that the fourth listing was Tupelo, Mississippi, the home town of Elvis Presley (1935–1977). Elvis was just an infant at the time, and he fortunately survived the funnel cloud that killed over 200 people on April 5, 1936.

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