1972 Birthday Omar Daal, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher for the Montreal Expos 1970 Birthday Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher, Chicago White Sox 1969 Event Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 1915 Event Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo 1914 Event Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
