Texaco was formed.
Originally named “The Texas Company,” it started from the Fee Oil Well No. 3 in Sour Lake, Texas.
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The United Nations formed the World Health Organization (WHO).
Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted, devastating Naples in the process.
Booker T. Washington became the first Black person pictured on a US postage stamp.
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
New York and New Jersey were struck by the strongest earthquake in over one hundred years.
