The boxing competition was canceled by the Swedish organizers, who found the sport disagreeable; this cancellation, along with controversial officiating at earlier Olympics, prompted the IOC to greatly curtail the role of local organizing groups after 1912.
At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, more than 100 flights were canceled, according to FlightStats.com, and crowds were sparse on Monday morning as travelers made alternate plans.
American canceled their Monday morning flight, too, and they weren't happy as they sat in the international lobby.
But the flight for the other half of the band was canceled because of the ice, leaving them stranded for an extra day in Hawaii.
The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Indiana governor Mike Pence canceled their appearances; declared presidential candidate Rand Paul, who supports a rival gun group, was not invited.
Empire is now the cornerstone of a lineup that, this fall, will include a series based on the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, a show from the creators of American Horror Story called Scream Queens (starring Jamie Lee Curtis) and a Rob Lowe comedy called The Grinder, about the star of a canceled reality series.
Organizers announced on Facebook that all events were canceled for the weekend.
Karen Pride, a spokeswoman for Chicago's aviation department, said Tuesday that some 125 flights at O'Hare had been canceled.
The shows in Canada were the comedian's first since November when a string of performances were canceled over the accusations.
At New York's Penn Station, Cicero Goncalves was waiting for a train to Vermont, where he was going snowboarding, because he expected the flight he had hoped to take would be canceled.
Under Mayer, Yahoo has been trying to reverse that trend by concentrating on content, buying the blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1bn last May, hiring high-profile talent including former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric and broadcasting TV shows, including NBC's canceled Community.
