On this day
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Broadway, Manhattan and the best of the city lost their glitter last night. Yet New Yorkers, who are used to living in crises seemed to take the blackout in stride.
Subway trains sputtered to a halt in tunnels, on elevated tracks and in stations yesterday, stranding about 800,000 rush hour riders -- 10,000 of whom were still stuck at midnight.
NY Times Nov 10 ed printed at Newark plant because of NE power blackout
off-duty firemen called during Nov 9 NE elec power failure to help keep contact with apparatus in field; dept radio out of service for 3 hrs
The city's emergency services were mobilized last night to deal with the sudden power blackout.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1965, covering November 10, 1965.
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Ramsey Lewis Trio
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Bob Dylan
1965Jamie Dixon, American basketball player and coach[†]
James Patrick Dixon II is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs men's team, where he played college ball. He previously served as the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh men's basketball team from 2003 through 2016.
1965Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver[†]
Edmund "Eddie" Irvine Jr. is a former racing driver from Northern Ireland, who competed under the British flag in Formula One from 1993 to 2002. Irvine was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1999 with Ferrari, and won four Grands Prix across 10 seasons.
1965Robert Jones, Welsh rugby player and coach[†]
Robert Nicholas Jones is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He was capped 54 times for Wales during his career, at that time a record. He and Gareth Edwards, Rob Howley, Dwayne Peel and Mike Phillips are the only scrum-halves to have achieved 50 caps or more for Wales.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]