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The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT.
A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...
November 9—United States and Canada—The Northeast blackout of 1965 affected portions of seven northeastern U.S. states and Ontario.Most radio and television stations within the area lost power or lost teletype communications, so people within the blackout area relied on broadcasts from other areas to learn information about the blackout.
The blackout affected some areas of Canada as well with a total of 10 million Canadians and 45 million Americans left without power. Today in history: Massive blackout hits Northeast US states ...
The first two weeks of February have seen the most numerous major Northeast winter storms, historically. On Feb. 11, 1983, 42 years ago today, one of the most memorable such storms in modern times ...
Northeast Blackout may refer to: Northeast blackout of 1965, a power outage that affected parts of Ontario, Canada, and the Northeastern United States;
Two temperature records were set on February 6, one in each hemisphere, one for warmth, the other for mind-numbing cold. On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago, Antarctica set its all-time record high of ...
Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states (Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and portions of New Jersey) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13½ hours.