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The Sixties · Technology

Great Blackout

Great Blackout
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Great Blackout

The Great Blackout of 1965 caused the power sytems throughout the Northeast to fail, thus plunging New York, Boston and other cities into darkess during the evening rush hour. The blackout origninated at a power plant along the Canadian border, but the failure cascaded through the system.

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