Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. To the Editor: The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 was a catastrophic power outage that affected 30 million people in the northeastern United States ...

Tom Foty: July 13th, another blackout hits New York. A recap after this. Tom Foty: It had happened once before 12 years earlier. The 1965 Northeast Blackout caused relatively little trouble.