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1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard 1966 U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities 1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die 1945 U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends 1944 Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion 1991 1940 Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer, 1st woman Top Fuel champ 1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) 1808 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa |
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