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In some Chicago suburbs like Highwood, Naperville, and Rockford, Blackout Wednesday can be a more popular party night than New Year's Eve or Saint Patrick's Day. [ 1 ] In some cities, it is the worst drunk driving night of the year, [ 3 ] and police departments increase patrols checking for drunk driving in many jurisdictions including in ...
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...
Some industry insiders call it "Blackout Wednesday" as data from more than 2,900 local beer, wine and liquor stores across the U.S. show sales leaping to 130% higher than a normal day on ...
Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [ 1] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 ...
Parts of Chicago were under a severe thunderstorm warning Wednesday morning as a storm system moved east through northern Illinois, according to weather officials. Northwestern Cook County was ...
Ecuador was hit with an hours-long nationwide blackout on Wednesday that left the South American nation’s 17 million people without power. The blackout — which affected hospitals, homes, and a ...
The whole world is watching. Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants "The whole world is watching". " The whole world is watching " was a phrase chanted by anti-Vietnam War demonstrators as they were beaten and arrested by police ...