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2009 Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe
2007 Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water 2007 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power 2003 After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America 2001 Thuy Trang, actress, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, dies at 27 2000 After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea) 1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China 1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland 1994 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40 1993 Norman Vincent Peale, Reverend, 'Power of Positive Thinking', dies at 95 1991 Vicky Brown, U.S. singer (Power of Love), dies 1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15 1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13 1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins 1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals 1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap 1986 Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) 1985 STS-61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion 1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff 1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques 1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power 1977 Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1977 E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70 1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain 1975 Karan Ashley Jackson, Odessa, Texas, actress, Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers 1975 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78 1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating 1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure 1971 John and Yoko record "Power to the People" 1970 Thomas S Power, USAF-General (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65 1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon 1968 President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power 1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute 1968 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47 1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa 1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" 1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France 1966 Kensuke Sasaki, wrestler, WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement 1966 Sophia Crawford, born in London, England, actress, Power Rangers 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria 1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda 1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout) 1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power 1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power 1964 Papandreou Government takes power in Greece 1962 C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation 1962 U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel 1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3) 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power 1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches 1959 Tyrone Power, Jr., born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Shag 1959 Bob Rosenberg, rocker, Will To Power 1958 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44 1958 Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power 1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity 1957 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) 1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC 1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st U.S. city lit by nuclear power 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, U.S.S.R. 1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt 1953 Taryn Power, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress, Maria 1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) 1952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat 1951 Romina Power, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress, Justine 1951 Government of Drees takes power 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary 1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions 1945 John Carlos, track star, Olympic bronze 1968, ; gave black power salute 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia 1943 Joe Simon, U.S. singer, Power of Love 1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq 1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact 1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power 1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas 1936 Wally Amos, born in Tallahassee, Florida, actor, speaker, co-wrote, 'The Power in You', founder, 'Famous Amos' chocolate chip cookie brand, first African-American talent agent, represented Diana Ross & the Supremes, Simon & Garfunkel 1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power 1934 Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power 1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss 1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power 1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler 1933 French government of Daladier takes power 1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official, The Power Game 1931 Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 1928 Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave 1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament 1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO, National Power 1927 Donald Miller, CEO, Scottish Power 1926 Robert Schuller, televangelist, Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power 1926 Belgian government of Jaspar takes power 1926 German government of Marx takes power 1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power 1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York 1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X 1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) 1917 October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power 1913 Tyrone Power, Cleveland, actor, Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band 1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power 1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords 1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes 1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power 1906 E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer, CBS 1903 American Power Boat Association forms 1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power 1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 1898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman, Power of Positive Thinking 1897 Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer, Power of Love 1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation 1896 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess, Power of Women 1888 Robert Moses, power broker, built Long Island and New York City parks and roads 1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo 1886 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts 1886 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA 1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1874 Gerald du Maurier, born in London, England, actor, Power, Escape, Masks and Faces 1869 Tyrone Power Sr, born in London, England, actor, Alexanders Ragtime Band 1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) 1865 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author, Will Power 1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out 1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France 1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal 1843 Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil 1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S., naval officer, Influence of Sea Power 1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state 1804 12th amendment to U.S. constitution, regulating judicial power 1795 11th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, affirms power of states 1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published 1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 1762 Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power 1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom 1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power 1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power, 1611-32 1528 Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power 1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy 1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain 502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power |
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