• The Northeast Blackout of 1965 on November 9, 1965.
• The New York City Blackout of July 13-14, 1977, resulted in looting and rioting.
• The Great Storm of October 1987 brought down power lines throughout southern England causing extensive blackouts.
• On March 13, 1989, a solar storm caused the HydroQuebec power failure which left 6 million people without power for 9 or more hours.
• The 1998 power failures in Auckland, New Zealand.
• During the California electricity crisis there were regular power failures due to energy shortages and market manipulation resulting from failed deregulation.
• On August 14, 2003, there was a wide-area power failure in the northeast of the USA as well as in parts of Canada, affecting 50 million people: see 2003 U.S.-Canada blackout.
• There was a 2003 London blackout on August 28 which won worldwide headlines such as "Power cut cripples London" but in fact only affected 0.5 million people.
• On September 23, 2003, a power failure affected 4 or 5 million people in Denmark and southern Sweden.
• On September 27-28, 2003, a power failure affected all of Italy except Sardinia, cutting service to 57 million people.

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