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Leon Hess (March 14, 1914 – May 7, 1999) was an American businessman, the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets.Hess built an oil terminal in New Jersey after the Great Depression, building his first refinery in the late 1950s.
1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured). 1919 – Sir Harry Hands , the mayor of Cape Town , performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I .