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After the shutdown, the average national price of gasoline rose to the highest it had been in over six years, to about an average of US$3.04 a gallon on May 18. The price increase was more pronounced in the southern states, with prices rising between 9 and 16 cents in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia.
Colonial Pipeline Company logo. The Colonial Pipeline is the largest pipeline system for refined oil products in the U.S. [1] The pipeline – consisting of three tubes – is 5,500 miles (8,850 km) long [1] and can carry 3 million barrels of fuel per day between Texas and New York.
Year Date Event 1728: The University of Havana is founded. 1734: Juan Francisco de Güemes begins a 12-year tenure as Governor of Cuba. 1741: British Admiral Edward Vernon briefly captures Guantánamo Bay, renaming it Cumberland Bay, during the War of Jenkins' Ear. His troops withdraw after being decimated by fevers and raids from Spanish ...
Twenty-three years since the day that changed everything. Since that impossibly blue sky on a crisp autumn morning. Since the first plane. Then the second plane.
Northwest of the Allegheny River was the Iroquoian Petun, [10] known mostly for their vast Tobacco plantations, although this is believed to be complete fabrication. [11] They were fragmented into three groups during the Beaver Wars , the Petun of New York, the Wyandot of Ohio, and the Tiontatecaga of the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia .
Ten days after a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., killing all 67 people on board, investigators have recovered most of the debris ...
April 2019 – James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December 2018. April 27, 2019 – A gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John Timothy Earnest, who was 19 years old at the time.
It was the 14th fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in 15 years, but the 2009 disaster would become a turning point in American aviation. In the following years, the crash site was transformed into a ...