Northeast Blackout of 1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965 The Northeast Blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on November 9, 1965 affecting Ontario, Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey in the United States. Around 25 million people and 80,000 square miles were left without electricity for up to twelve hours. The cause of the failure originated at the Niagara generating station, Sir Adam Beck Station No. 2 in Ontario. At 5:16 PM Eastern time a single line of the power plant tripped, within seconds other lines out of the plant overloaded and also tripped, shutting down the plant generators. Within five minutes the power distribution system in the northeast was in chaos as the effects cascaded through.
1965 - 1965 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 - 1965 - 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Books Events January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 26 - Hindi becomes the official language of India. February 9 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Red Ensign.
August 14 - into force prompting many offshore radio stations to close, most prominently Radio London off Frinton in Essex at 3pm local time on this day. Act boosted campaign for onshore commercial radio to be legalised enabling listeners to choose a non BBC English language station and for establishment style of BBC radio to be relaxed and refreshed. See BBC Radio 1 1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland 1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Great Britain 1972 - An East German Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin killing 156 1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards 2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada. Births 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, psychologist (+.
Timeline of New York City disasters - the first bomb of his sixteen years as "The Mad Bomber". July 28, 1945 - A B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashs into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 13 people. March 13, 1964 - Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death. The crime is witnessed by dozens of people, none of whom aid Genovese or call for help. November 9, 1965 - New York City is affected as part of the Northeast Blackout of 1965. July 29, 1976 - David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year July 13-14, 1977 - New York City again loses power in a blackout. Unlike the previous blackout twelve years earlier,.
Niagara-Mohawk power grid - additional 540,000 people with natural gas. The company is located in Syracuse, New York, Major failures of the grid include the Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the 2003 U.S.-Canada blackout..
November 9 - Hall Putsch fails: In Munich, policeman and troops crush the first Nazi Party attempt to seize control of the German government. 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured. 1938 - Holocaust: Kristallnacht (also Reichspogromnacht) begins - In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested). 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. 1963 - 1963 Miike coal-mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital. 1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by.
List of power outages - This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages The Northeast Blackout of 1965 on November 9, 1965. The New York City Blackout of July 13-14, 1977, resulted in looting and rioting. The Great Storm of October 1987 brought down power lines throughout southern England causing extensive blackouts. On March 13, 1989, a solar storm caused the HydroQuebec power failure which left 6 million people without power for 9 or more hours. The 1998 power failures in Auckland, New Zealand. During the California electricity crisis there were regular power failures due to energy shortages and market manipulation resulting from failed deregulation. On August 14, 2003, there was a wide-area power failure in the northeast of the USA as well as in parts of Canada, affecting 50 million people: see 2003 U.S.-Canada.
Yang Liwei - (杨利伟) (born June 1965) is an astronaut (yuhangyuan) and the People's Republic of China's first man in space. Yang Liwei pictured in orbit during the Shenzhou 5 mission with PRC and UN flags. He was born in Suizhong County in the Liaoning Province, an industrial area in Northeast China. Yang's mother was a teacher, his father an accountant at a state agricultural firm. Yang Liwei's wife is also a People's Liberation Army officer, with whom he has a son. Growing up, his grades were average but he excelled in the sciences. He loved to swim and skate and shone in track and field events. Yang was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1998 and has trained for space flight since then. He was chosen from the final pool of 14 Chinese.
Indian Point nuclear power plant - New York City. The plant, which includes two operating nuclear reactors, is owned and operated by Entergy Nuclear Northeast, a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation; Entergy also owns the intact decommissioned Indian Point 1 reactor and several on-site gas turbines. Activists have been calling for the shutdown of Indian Point since 1979 when a near meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania demonstrated the possible dangers of placing nuclear reactors near areas of heavy population density. Since September 11, 2001 there has been renewed interest in mothballing the plant. The thirty year old reactors have been called a "weapon of mass destruction" by some in the wake of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. This is because an explosion in or around the plant, or airplane crash on the.
Hawker-Siddeley Trident - a competition to name it) and placed a contract for 24 on August 12th, 1959. Hawker-Siddeley Trident 1C (G-ARPC), built 1962 and destroyed in a fire at London (Heathrow) Airport in 1975 Hawker-Siddeley, which had formed by this point, started looking for additional customers for the Trident, and entered discussions with American Airlines in 1960. They demanded longer range, somewhat ironic as the original DH.121 design would have filled their requirements almost perfectly. Nevertheless they started design work on a new Trident 1A, powered with uprated Spey 510's of 10,700lb thrust, and a larger wing with more fuel, raising gross weight to 120,000lb and range to 1,800 miles. American Airlines eventually declined the aircraft in favour of the Boeing 727, an aircraft that filled the original DH.121 specifications almost exactly. Some.
History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - left in the country. The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size. Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. Almost from independence the coutnry began to unravel. A military coup broke out in the capital and rampant looting began. On July 11th the richest province of the coutnry, Katanga, seceeded under Moise Tshombe. To protect Europeans in the country and try to restore order 20 000 UN peacekeepers were sent to the country. Western paramilitaries and mercenaries, often hired by mining companies to protect there interests, also began to pour into the country. In.
History of the Philippines - only method of migration left was the dugout prao, built by felling trees and hollowing them out with adzes. To this day, the Filipino word for village is kin to the word for boat. Around 3000 BCE, Malayss, from what is now Indonesia and Malaysia, also entered the area. Forty-five centuries later, one of these seafaring peoples would even play a part in the first circumnavigation of the globe 1521. The Sea-farers The South China Sea has currents which run counterclockwise. Thus, during a southwest monsoon, from June through September, it is easy to sail from the western Philippines, north to South China. During a northeast monsoon, in December through February, sailing would be easy from South China to the coast of Vietnam. From Vietnam, Nusantao sailor-traders could travel east along.
History of the Republic of China - cause appeared bankrupt. A new policy was instituted calling on the CPC to foment armed insurrections in both urban and rural areas in preparation for an expected rising tide of revolution. Unsuccessful attempts were made by Communists to take cities such as Nanchang, Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou, and an armed rural insurrection, known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising, was staged by peasants in Hunan Province. The insurrection was led by Mao Zedong, who would later become chairman of the CPC and head of state of the People's Republic of China. But in mid-1927 the CPC was at a low ebb. The Communists had been expelled from Wuhan by their left-wing KMT allies, who in turn were toppled by a military regime. By 1928 all of China was at least nominally under.
Houston, Texas - that would later become the Hermann Park. September of the same year saw the start of the Houston Zoo. The zoo was started when Houston schoolchildren bought two ostriches. The zoo was later moved from Sam Houston Park to Hermann Park. September 26 saw the first international-bound ship in the port. During the Roaring Twenties', more specifically 1927, the state highway to Houston was built. Bus and truck operations also fell into swing. August 1929 saw the first Sears into Houston. Then Black Tuesday threw devastating blow to the economy of the entire United States. Houston's growth was much smaller, but the city still grew. Mexican Americans no longer saw easy to obtain jobs, yet several were successful by catering to the Caucasian market in the city. The Houston Livestock Show.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - College, a two-year institution. Funded first by student tuition payments, then by local property taxes, it became state-supported in 1958 upon joining the newly formed North Carolina community college system. In 1961 it moved to its present campus ten miles northeast of downtown Charlotte, and in 1963 became a four-year college. It adopted its current name July 1, 1965, upon becoming part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, since 1972 called the University of North Carolina System. As of 2003 UNCC has an enrollment of 19,000 students (15,400 undergraduate and 3,600 graduate). It offers over eighty-two undergraduate, fifty-seven master's, and ten doctoral programs. For athletics purposes, the school prefers to be called Charlotte. The school, a member of the NCAA's Division I (with no football program), is currently a member.
Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America - foreign mission society. In 1946 the Fundamentalist Fellowship changed its name to Conservative Baptist Fellowship, and was instrumental in organizing the Conservative Baptist Association of America in 1947 and the Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society in 1948. Conflict caused the Fellowship to organize the World Conservative Baptist Mission (now Baptist World Mission), which would only appoint missionaries who were premillennial in eschatology. In 1965, the Conservative Baptist Fellowship broke all ties with the Conservative Baptist Association movement, and took the name Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America. Some of its members formed the New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches. Relations were strained, but these two groups reconciled in 1974, though they remain separate organizations. FBFI is a fellowship of individuals who agree with the Statement of Faith and purposes of the.
Edwin Muir - poet and novelist. He was was born on a farm in Deerness, Orkney Islands in the remote northeast of Scotland. In 1901, when he was 14, his father lost the farm and the family moved to Glasgow. In Glasgow first his father, then his two brothers, and then his mother died in the space of a few years. His life as a young man in Glasgow was a depressing experience for him, involving a succession of unpleasant jobs. In 1919 he married Willa Anderson (later known for her translations of Franz Kafka) and moved to London. From 1921 - 1923 he was in Prague, Dresden, Italy, Salzburg and Vienna; he returned to England in 1924. Between 1925 and 1956 Muir published seven volumes of poetry which were collected after his death.
Essex - England. For other places named Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). Essex is a county located northeast of London, part of the East of England region. Because of its proximity to London and the economic magnetism which that city exerts, many of Essex's settlements function as dormitory towns or villages where London workers raise their families. In 1991 Essex had a population of 1,528,600. The name of the county is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Essex. In 2001 Essex had a population of 1,310,900, the apparent decline from 1,528,600 in 1991 being explained entirely by the separation of the districts of Southend-on-Sea (160,300) and Thurrock (143,000) as unitary authority areas. Until 1965 the county included also the present-day London boroughs of Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Redbrdige, Waltham Forest and Newham (except.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) - stood out of Ulithi again on 11 December and headed for the Philippines. Ticonderoga arrived at the launch point early in the afternoon of the 13th and sent her planes aloft to blanket Japanese airbases on Luzon while Army planes took care of those in the central Philippines. For three days, Ticonderoga airmen and their comrades wreaked havoc with a storm of destruction on enemy airfields. She withdrew on the 16th with the rest of TF 38 in search of a fueling rendezvous. While attempting to find calmer waters in which to refuel, TF 38 steamed directly through a violent, but unheralded, typhoon. Though the storm cost Admiral Halsey's force three destroyers and over 800 lives, Ticonderoga and the other carriers managed to ride i t out with a minimum of.
Dennis Hopper - Shooter (1999), Edtv (1999), Lured Innocence (1999), The Prophet's Game (1999), Meet the Deedles (1998), Black Dahlia (1998), Me and Will (1998), Michael Angel (1998), Tycus (1998), Road Ends (1997), The Blackout (1997), Space Truckers (1997), Top of the World (1997), Basquiat (1996), Carried Away (1996), 'Waterworld' (1995), Search and Destroy (1995), Chasers (1994), Speed (1994), True Romance (1993), Super Mario Brothers (1993), Boiling Point (1993), Red Rock West (1992), Eye of the Storm (1991), The Indian Runner (1991), Sunset Heat (1991), Chattahoochee (1990), Flashback (1990), Motion & Emotion (1990), Backtrack (1989), Blood Red (1988), 'River's Edge' (1987), Running Out of Luck (1987), Straight to Hell (1987), 'Blue Velvet' (1986), Black Widow (1986), Hoosiers (1986), Riders of the Storm (1986), White Star (1985), My Science Project (1985), O.C. & Stiggs (1985),.
