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Electricity
1998
Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario
1965
Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1961
Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
1957
Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1951
Last Belgian communities get electricity
1944
Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
1944
German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
1944
German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1938
P Daubeny, CEO, Electricity Assn
1936
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1932
Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1912
Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council
1909
Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
1891
John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights
1887
Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1886
1st public Dutch electricity opens
1882
Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1882
1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1880
NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1878
Edison makes electricity available for household usage
1865
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born in Germany, experiment with AC electricity
1831
James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity
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