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Traffic jams, hospital emergencies, stranded travelers and other problems kept the authorities busy in many cities and smaller communities of upstate New York, New England and Canada during the blackout, but none apparently were as hard hit as this city.
The Night the Power Failed will be recalled by the millions who lived through it as an eerie all-night fantasy when the whole machinery of life came to a halt.
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1965, covering November 11, 1965.
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Ramsey Lewis Trio
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Bob Dylan
1965Max Mutchnick, American screenwriter and producer[†]
Jason Nidorf "Max" Mutchnick is an American television producer. He has received an Emmy Award, a People's Choice Award, and several Golden Globe Award nominations.
1965Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter[†]
Kim Stockwood is a Canadian pop musician, singer and composer originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has recorded as a solo artist and also as a member of Atlantic Canadian music group Shaye with Damhnait Doyle and Tara MacLean.
1965Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (born 1900)[†]
Luis Arturo González López was a Guatemalan attorney and politician who served as the acting President of Guatemala from 27 July 1957 to 24 October 1957. He became president after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas, under whom he was designated as first in the presidential line of succession by Congress.
1965Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.[†]
Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in Southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally known as South Zambesia until annexation by Britain, at the behest of Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company. The bounding territories were Bechuanaland (Botswana), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Portuguese Mozambique (Mozambique) and the Transvaal Republic. Since 1980, the colony's territory is the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1965United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.[†]
United Airlines Flight 227 (N7030U), a scheduled passenger flight from LaGuardia Airport New York City to San Francisco International Airport, California, crashed short of the runway while attempting a scheduled landing at Salt Lake City International Airport, Utah, on Thursday, November 11, 1965.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]