The Illuminations at the British seaside resort of Blackpool were turned on for the first time.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to service.
Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.
80 red, white, and blue walnut-sized glass light bulbs were hand-wired and placed around a large Christmas tree in the home of Edward H. Johnson’s New York home on Fifth Avenue.
The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the time.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
The world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
