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Wed 30 Jul, 2008 10:55 am
A lightning storm is responsible for jump-starting the Hip-Hop movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
Quote:By 9:36 PM EDT the entire Con Edison power system shut down, almost exactly an hour after the first lightning strike. By 10:26 PM EDT operators started a restoration procedure. Power was not restored until late the following day.
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Looting and vandalism were widespread ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/hiphop.php?page=2
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He peppered his talk with oft-told hip-hop tales and intriguing nuggets of cultural history. He told hip-hop's creation story, of the famous 1973 party in the Bronx, whose host was the legendary Jamaican immigrant disc jockey, D.J. Kool Herc. He described how the looting of hi-fi stores during the 1977 New York City blackout propelled D.J. culture. ("It was like Christmas for black people," he said. "The next day there were a thousand new D.J.s.")
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In 1830, a performance of Auber's opera
La muette de Portici led to a riot which led to the Belgian Revolution and the founding of Belgium as an independent state:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_revolution#A_Night_at_the_Opera
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