* 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.

During that year, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini made his first of ten TV appearances conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and Texaco Star Theater, starring comedian Milton Berle, became television's first gigantic hit show.

As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater ( 1948 – 55 ), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as " Uncle Miltie " and " Mr. Television " during TV's golden age.

His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.

In 1948, NBC decided to bring Texaco Star Theater from radio to television, with Berle as one of the show's four rotating hosts.

It turned out that everyone waited until the end of the Texaco Star Theater before going to the bathroom ".

The Texaco Star National Academic Championship premiered July 1, 1989, on the Discovery Channel.

* 1961 – Texaco introduces the " The Man who wears the Star " campaign with the " Texaco Star Theme " written by W. A.

* 1988 – Texaco and Saudi Aramco agree to form a joint venture known as Star Enterprise in which Saudi Aramco would own a 50 % share of Texaco's refining and marketing operations in the eastern U. S. and Gulf Coast.

It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Milton Berle ( many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco – see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: " We're the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico ...").

:* Texaco Star Theater Oct. 4, 1939 on CBS.

:* Texaco Star Theater Jan. 3, 1943 on CBS.

:* Texaco Star Theater June 4, 1944 on CBS.

* June 8 – Milton Berle becomes the first United States television star with the debut of Texaco Star Theater ( later The Milton Berle Show ) on NBC ( 1948 – 1953 ).

An advertisement for the October 12, 1938 Texaco Star Theatre.

Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956.

The roots of Texaco Star Theatre were in a 1930s radio hit, Ed Wynn, the Fire Chief, featuring the manic " Perfect Fool " in a half hour of vaudevillian routines interspersed with music.

The first Texaco Star Theatre ( spelled Theatre for most of the radio show's run ) was on October 5, 1938.

In 1940, the show became a star vehicle for, with the show re-titled Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen and the program airing on October 2, 1940.

He presided over Texaco Star Theatre from 1940 – 42 as an hour-long show on Wednesday and then Sunday nights, to 1942 – 1944 as a half-hour show, until Allen withdrew from work for over a year on his doctor's advice.

Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80 % share of the recorded viewing audience.

Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merritt Parkway.

The A418 lefts to the left and it becomes Gatehouse Road, then at the next roundabout, it leaves to left as Bicester Road near the Texaco Aylesbury Service Station.

From Ledbury, it goes west, overlapping the A438, then at a set of traffic lights next to a Texaco petrol station, known as the Trumpet Crossroad, the road goes north-west along a yet more high-hedged, narrow road.

On the opposite side of the road is another bus shelter ( next to the Texaco gas station ) that serves passengers travelling to San Pedro and destinations north and west.

To travel to La Esperanza buses go from the turnoff about 4 km from town centre, next to the new Texaco Service Centre.

They didn't settle on Berle — who hosted a freshly revived radio version in spring 1948 — as the permanent host right away ; he hosted the first television Texaco Star Theater in June 1948 but was originally part of a rotation of hosts ( Berle himself had only a four-week contract ).

Other businesses established in Lindenhurst included Linden Texaco, Linden Barber Shop, Ben Franklin Variety Store, and Stretch-A-Dollar Clothing Store.

On television, continuing a practice long established in radio, Texaco included its brand name in the show title.

In 1993, 30, 000 Ecuadorians, which included Cofan, Siona, Huaorani, and Quichua indigenous people, filed a lawsuit against Texaco oil company for the environmental damages caused by oil extraction activities in the Lago Agrio oil field.

It was financed by Freeport Sulphur, whose directors included Godfrey Rockefeller, Texaco chairman Augustus Long, and Robert Lovett.

Previous competitions included the Dublin and Belfast Intercity Cup 1941 / 42-1948 / 49, the North-South Cup 1961 / 62-1962 / 63, the Blaxnit Cup 1967 / 68-1973 / 74, the Texaco ( All-Ireland ) Cup 1973 / 74-1974 / 75, and the Tyler Cup 1978-1980.

* Video clip of Eric and Ern in an advert for Texaco with racing driver James Hunt.

*( patrons ) The Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, James Michener, Philip Morris, The Cleveland Foundation, Elma Lewis and The Dayton Hudson Foundation.

The couple were married in 1944 in a Texaco Station in Andalusia, Alabama, by a justice of the peace.

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

* March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco ( b. 1860 )

* December 31 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco ( d. 1937 )

* 1905 – Texaco establishes an operation in Antwerp, Belgium, under the name Continental Petroleum Company.

* 1913 – Texaco acquires control of the Central Petroleum Company.

* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).

* 1931 – The Texas Company ( Texaco's corporate name ) purchases Indian Oil Company, based in Illinois, a move that expands Texaco's refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gives Texaco the rights to Indian's manufacturing processes of Havoline " Wax Free " motor oil, which becomes a Texaco product and provides the company with a higher-quality motor oil product.

* 1932 – Texaco introduces Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a motor fuel that meets the octane requirements for fire engines, and promotes it through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn, the " Texaco Fire Chief.

* 1936 – Texaco begins supplying the Nationalist rebels in Spain with oil, and continues to do so for the duration of the war, delivering some.

* 1937 – Texaco commissions industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to develop a modern service station design.

* 1938 – Texaco introduces Sky Chief gasoline, a premium grade fuel developed from the ground up as a high-octane gasoline rather than just an ethylized regular product.

Sky Chief is dispensed from a silver gas pump in contrast with the red pump used for Fire Chief gasoline – a move that lasts many years until the early 1960s. 1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodge on display at the Henry Ford Museum.

* 1939 – Texaco becomes one of the first oil companies to introduce a " Registered Rest Room " program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public.

* 1947 – Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent ; it gained full control of Regent in 1956, but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968-9.

* 1954 – Texaco adds the detergent additive Petrox to its " Sky Chief " gasoline, which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high-compression engines.

* 1958 – Texaco became the sole sponsor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV.

* 1959 – The Texas Company changes its corporate name to Texaco, Inc. to better reflect the value of the Texaco brand name, which represented the biggest selling gasoline brand in the U. S. and only marketer selling gasoline under one brand name in all 50 states.