I'll get this started. As a qualifier, I'm from Metairie, which borders New Orleans on its western side so I can't guarantee that these dates involved snow but I lived no more than 10 miles from New Orleans during any of these snowfalls so I'm fairly sure about these:
December 22, 1989
March 12, 1993
December 25, 2004
December 11, 2008
It actually snowed overnight, with much of the 2 to 5 inches falling in the early hours of New Year's Day, January 1, 1964. It was the 2nd largest recorded snowfall in the city's history and the first time that snowmen could be built in New Orleans since 1954.
December 25 1963
The earliest forms of jazz started in New Orleans. But the modern day jazz that you know began when they closed down storyville in New Orleans and people moved to Kansas City, and Chicago.
Straight University and New Orleans University (not to be confused with the current University OF New Orleans) merged to become the present day Dillard University in New Orleans.
chocolate
Yes. Dallas hosts New Orleans in their traditional Thanksgiving Day game this season (2010).
New Orleans
The answer to that question changes every day.
Louisiana.
January 17th 1815
Christmas Day 1814.
No.
New Orleans was awarded the National Football League team on November 1, 1966 -- "All Saints Day."