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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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