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2003 The Concorde made its last commercial flight, landing at Heathrow Airport, London

2002 Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69

2001 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania

1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

1989 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)

1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial

1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)

1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement

1987 1st condom commercial on BBC TV

1987 Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86

1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial

1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight

1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified

1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747

1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.)

1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France

1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit

1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours

1970 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight

1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)

1968 Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1963 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV

1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois

1958 Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor, Addicted to Love

1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder

1955 Commercial TV begins in England

1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins

1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial

1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated

1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA

1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis

1946 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City)

1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing

1942 U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production

1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial

1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee

1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX

1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware

1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe

1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends

1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles

1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am

1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii

1936 H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days

1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1934 TWA began commercial service

1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)

1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London

1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York

1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station

1920 1st commercial armored car introduced in St. Paul Minn

1895 Auguste Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema

1895 Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema

1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City)

1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)

1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights

1886 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine

1886 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts

1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film

1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago

1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan

1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed

1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established

1833 U.S. and Siam sign commercial treaty

1827 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered

1819 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, Crises Commercial

1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland

1812 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser)

1782 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

1629 1st commercial fishery established

1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders


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