[Iron Munro]

THE GREAT NORTHEAST BLACKOUT OF 1965

The great northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965.

It affected parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States.

Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles and were left without electricity for up to 13 hours.

There was no information on what had happened on the TV or Radio and those affected didn't know if it was a blackout, a nuclear attack or some sort of major natural calamity.

[Steely Tom]

I remember that. The power line frequency dropped and dropped. The lights dimmed. The refrigerator sounded weird.

That night, at about 8:00, I went out with a friend of mine, walking through the city. His dad asked him to go check on the family-owned grocery store, and he didn’t want to go alone. I was in fifth grade, he was in sixth.

It was so utterly dark. I had never seen the stars so bright in my life.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember a COMEDY movie about this. “WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.”(1968)