* 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 ".

* 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.

Dwight is home to one of only three banks designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the First National Bank of Dwight, as well as an historic U. S. Route 66 Texaco gas station, Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, and a 1891 railway station.

KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston, Texas, had their own version of It's Academic called the Texaco Star Academic Challenge.

The Drivers Championship was won by Roberto Ravaglia in a BMW M3 and the Entrants Championship was won by the Eggenberger Texaco Ford No 7 entry, which was a Ford Sierra.

* July 2004 – Chevron regains non-exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U. S.

* July 2006 – Chevron regains exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U. S. and begins opening up gas stations across the U. S. and sold some of its BP and its Citgo stations in the southeast.

* July 2010 – Chevron and Texaco end retail operations in the Mid-Atlantic US, removing their brand from 1, 100 stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D. C., and parts of Tennessee.

On July 9, 2006, Montoya announced his plans to compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series beginning with the 2007 season, racing for Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates ' NASCAR operation, Chip Ganassi Racing, in the No. 42 Texaco / Havoline Car.

The Huntley-Brinkley Report ( sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report, for one of its early sponsors ) was the NBC television network's flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970.

* Radio Journeys: Texaco Fire Chief ( July 26, 1932 )

On April 1, 2010 in Mississippi Chevron purchased some BP gas stations which were Amoco, to convert them to the Texaco brand.

In 1925 the Stubblefield # 1 well drilled by the Texas Oil Company ( Texaco ) came in flowing vast amounts of oil.

The estimated sale price was in excess of $ 75 million, with the family receiving consulting fees of nearly $ 1 million per year afterward, as well as Texaco stock.

He also made his One Day International debut in 1997 in the Texaco Cup, but scored 1, making it his only appearance in a limited overs international.

Airdrie reached the Texaco Cup Final in 1972, losing 2 – 1 on aggregate to Derby County.

* Texaco Cup ( 1 ): 1974 – 75

The team was bailed out by their play-by-play announcer who used his wife's Texaco card to front the $ 1, 500 bill.

Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc., 481 U. S. 1, 5 ( U. S. 1987 )

* 1989 – Texaco introduces System3 gasolines in all three grades of fuel, featuring the latest detergent additive technology to improve performance by reducing deposits that clog fuel injection systems.

In 1989 he was paid a $ 10 million bonus for his work on a lawsuit for Pennzoil that resulted in a $ 3 billion settlement from Texaco.

In 1989 Imperial Oil acquired Texaco's Canadian retails operations, which led to the Texaco brand vanishing from Canada.

In 1989 Texaco acquired Tana for $ 476 million, thereby providing money that was used to form TRT Holdings.

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.

All five major petrol station chains in the country operated a scheme during the late 1990s-Esso had " Tiger Miles " ( with Tesco ClubCard points offered as an alternative ), Maxol had " Points Plus ", both of which operated on the principle of getting items from a gift catalogue, with Shell using Dunnes ' scheme, Texaco using the SuperQuinn system, and Statoil operating a cash-back system, " Premium Club ".

U. S. companies such as Texaco, Standard Oil, Ford, General Motors, and Studebaker used this loophole to sell such items to Franco on credit.

Other features include red Texaco stars on the upper facade on outer sidewalls and above the service bays, and red lettering spelling out " TEXACO " above the office area.

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.

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

But more serious complaints-such as charges that Texaco distributed tankers of fuel-were allegedly left on the back burner.

Texaco sponsored the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts ; the broadcasts, now sponsored by the Toll Brothers, continue to this day around the world, and are one of the few examples of live classical music still broadcast on radio.

When Texaco ( now Chevron Corporation ) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.

When the television version launched on June 8, 1948, Texaco also made sure its employees were featured prominently throughout the hour, usually appearing as smiling " guardian angels " performing good deeds of one or another kind, and a quartet of Texaco singers opened each week's show with the following theme song:

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 ).