$50 QUESTION -- Category: Tough Questions
What energy event happened on February 11, 1808?
- Oil was struck for the first time in the Middle East at Mas jid-I-Suleiman in Iran, then called Persia.
- Using four large hot air balloons shaped like flying pigs, the world's first regularly-scheduled "passenger airline" began flying New Yorkers between Brooklyn and the Bronx.
- Anthracite coal was experimentally burned in a home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Judge Jesse Fell. Until then, most people thought that type of coal was worthless.
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