Story title: New York Power
Still fresh in the memory of many is the huge power failure that involved much of the northeast United States in November 1965. At 5:18 p.m. New York City went black. So did some 80,000 square miles of New York state, most of seven others states, and most of Canada's province of Ontario. Whether the cause was a generator feeding power at the wrong frequency or a switch thrown in error by some utility company employee was hard to determine.