2003 After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America
2001 Thuy Trang, actress, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, dies at 27
2000 After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea)
1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
1993 Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95
1991 Vicky Brown, U.S. singer (Power of Love), dies
1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)
1985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1977 E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 Karan Ashley Jackson, Odessa, Texas, actress, Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers
1975 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78
1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1971 John and Yoko record "Power to the People"
1970 Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1968 President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute
1968 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 Kensuke Sasaki, wrestler, WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior
1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1966 Sophia Crawford, born in London, England, actress, Power Rangers
1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout)
1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1964 Papandreou Government takes power in Greece
1962 C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1962 U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel
1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1959 Tyrone Power, Jr., born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Shag
1959 Bob Rosenberg, rocker, Will To Power
1958 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
1958 Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1957 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st U.S. city lit by nuclear power
1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, U.S.S.R.
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes PM of Egypt
1953 Taryn Power, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress, Maria
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
1951 Romina Power, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress, Justine
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1945 John Carlos, track star, Olympic bronze 1968, ; gave black power salute
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1943 Joe Simon, U.S. singer, Power of Love
1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1934 Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1933 French government of Daladier takes power
1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official, The Power Game
1931 Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1928 Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave
1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO, National Power
1927 Donald Miller, CEO, Scottish Power
1926 Robert Schuller, televangelist, Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power
1926 Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
1926 German government of Marx takes power
1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power
1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York
1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1917 October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1913 Tyrone Power, Cleveland, actor, Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band
1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes
1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1906 E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer, CBS
1903 American Power Boat Association forms
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
1898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman, Power of Positive Thinking
1897 Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer, Power of Love
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1896 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess, Power of Women
1888 Robert Moses, power broker, built Long Island and New York City parks and roads
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1886 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts
1886 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1874 Gerald du Maurier, born in London, England, actor, Power, Escape, Masks and Faces
1869 Tyrone Power Sr, born in London, England, actor, Alexanders Ragtime Band
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1865 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author, Will Power
1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1843 Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S., naval officer, Influence of Sea Power
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1804 12th amendment to U.S. constitution, regulating judicial power
1795 11th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1762 Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom
1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power, 1611-32
1528 Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
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