This Day in History (1975): Fire Prevention Exercise

From the Feb. 26, 1975,  edition of The Arabian Sun

Ras Tanura firemen show management the best way to cool down a blazing LPG fire -- one of many demonstrations held as part of the community's Fire Prevention Week, Feb. 15-19. 

Other activities included:

Fire drills at the Najmah School, ITS, ITC, and Health Center

Demonstrations of First Aid

Demonstrations of fire extinguishers in both Najmah and Rahima

Annual open house at the Najmah Fire Station

Also on this date

2017 — Joseph "Judge" Wapner dies in Los Angeles at age 97

2008 — The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea, the first event of its kind to take place in the country

1995 — Barings Bank collapses after rouge securities officer Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on futures contracts on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange

1979 — The Superliner railcar enters revenue services with Amtrak

1971 — U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day

1952 — Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada

1935 — Robert Watson-Watt's demonstration near Daventry leads directly to the development of radar in the U.K.

1929 — U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming

1919 — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park

1909 — Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is shown to the public at Palace Theater in London

1815 — Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba

1616 — Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Church from teaching or defending the view that the Earth orbits the sun

747 BC — According to Ptolemy, the origin of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events