This Day in History (1979): VLCC Calls at Ju’aymah

From the Sept 26^th, 1979, edition of The Arabian Sun

The Pierre Guillaumat, at 550,000 deadweight tons the world’s largest crude carrier, last week loaded over 3.7 million barrels of various grades of crude oil and bunker fuel at Ju’aymah Terminal; the French flagship is seen here loading from one of the offshore single point mooring buoys which serve Ju’aymah.

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2000 — Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits

1984 — The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997

1983 — Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike

1973 — Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time

1969 — Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released

1960 — In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy

1934 — The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched

1905 — Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity