This Day in History
This Day in History (1996): New propane loading system in Shedgum
The new equipment can fill a tanker in a quarter of the time it did with the previous system.
Shedgum has a new propane loading system.
Supervising operator Saad Al-Saleh is pictured here loading a tanker truck using Shedgum Gas Plant's new Propane Loading System.
The newly installed equipment can fill a tanker in 45 minutes -- a fraction of the three or four hours required with the old system.
In addition to helping meet Saudi Aramco's propane transportation needs, the facility supplies liquid propane to the local market through the Gasco distribution network.
Also on this date
2010 - Apple releases the first-generation tablet computer called the iPad
2008 - ATA Airlines, once of the largest passenger airlines in the U.S., files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years, ceasing all operations
2000 - Microsoft is ruled to have violated U.S. antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, the suspected "Unabomber," is captured at his Montana cabin in the U.S.
1989 - The US. Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield
1981 - The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco
1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Championship by default
1973 - Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he is assassinated the next day
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh
1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1888 - The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the Whitechapel district in the East End of London occurs
1860 - The first successful U.S. Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins
1721 - Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, even though he denied holding that title
