2014 Event Category 3-strength Hurricane Odile makes landfall near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, destroying property and leaving many residents without electricity or potable water; the storm is expected to weaken to a tropical storm overnight as it continues north 2012 Event In the U.S., over 60 people die in the Mid-Atlantic states as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy leaves millions without electricity and cripples its mass transportation system 2012 Event U.S. scientists develop a device that can generate electricity from genetically-engineered viruses; these piezoelectric materials are a step toward the development of personal power generators 2012 Event A power blackout in Northern England causes as many as 50,000 homes to have a power blackout after heavy winds, snow and ice bring down electricity cables 2010 Event Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless 1998 Event Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario 1965 Event Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 1961 Event Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 1957 Event Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity 1951 Event Last Belgian communities get electricity 1944 Event Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants 1944 Event German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland 1944 Event German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam 1938 Birthday P. Daubeny, CEO, Electricity Association 1936 Event Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles 1932 Event Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity 1912 Birthday Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council 1909 Event Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden 1891 Birthday John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights 1887 Event Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity 1886 Event 1st public Dutch electricity opens 1882 Event Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" 1882 Event 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 1880 Event NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" 1878 Event Edison makes electricity available for household usage 1865 Birthday Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born in Germany, experiment with AC electricity 1831 Birthday James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity
