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1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final

1993 Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86

1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football

1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81

1967 William Michael Heinen, Jr., Rayne, Louisiana, PGA golfer, 1994 Shell Houston

1965 James David McGovern, Teaneck, New Jersey, PGA golfer, 1993 Shell Houston Open

1962 Kirk Alan Triplett, born in Moses Lake, Washington, PGA golfer, 1992 Shell Houston-2nd

1961 Shell Kepler, actress, Amy Vining-General Hospital

1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba

1956 Frederick Funk, born in Takoma Park, Maryland, PGA golfer, 1992 Shell Houston Open

1946 Patricia Hodge, actress, Heat of the Day, Shell Seekers, Sunset

1939 Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72

1937 Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations)

1937 J S Jennings, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Co

1933 Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch CEO, Shell, and Minister of Defense, VVD

1932 Peter Holmes, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Company

1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens

1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)

1884 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser, British Petroleum/Shell

1866 Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate, Royal Oil, Shell

1860 Hugo Loudon, CEO, Royal Dutch Oil Shell

1854 U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

1761 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor, shrapnel shell


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