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2003 Event - The Concorde made its last commercial flight, landing at Heathrow Airport, London
2002 Death - Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69 2001 Event - 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania 1990 Event - Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya 1989 Event - 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM) 1989 Event - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial 1989 Event - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) 1989 Event - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement 1987 Event - 1st condom commercial on BBC TV 1987 Death - Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86 1984 Event - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1982 Event - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight 1981 Event - Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified 1981 Event - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 1976 Event - 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.) 1976 Event - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France 1973 Event - Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit 1970 Event - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours 1970 Event - World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight 1969 Event - 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) 1968 Event - Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R. 1965 Event - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service 1963 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV 1961 Event - Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1960 Event - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois 1958 Birthday - Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor, Addicted to Love 1957 Event - 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation 1956 Birthday - David Copperfield, born in Metuchen, New Jersey, illusionist, history's most successful commercial magician, sold over 40 million tickets, grossed over $1 billion 1956 Event - Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder 1955 Event - Commercial TV begins in England 1954 Event - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins 1951 Event - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1950 Event - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial 1947 Event - Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated 1947 Event - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA 1946 Event - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis 1946 Event - 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) 1944 Event - Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing 1942 Event - U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production 1941 Event - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial 1941 Event - 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee 1941 Event - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX 1939 Event - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware 1939 Event - Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe 1939 Event - All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends 1938 Event - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles 1937 Event - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am 1936 Event - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii 1936 Event - H. 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Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days 1935 Event - 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) 1934 Event - TWA began commercial service 1931 Event - Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) 1927 Event - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii 1927 Event - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh 1927 Event - Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London 1922 Event - 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York 1920 Event - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station 1920 Event - 1st commercial armored car introduced in St. Paul Minn 1895 Birthday - Auguste Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema 1895 Birthday - Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema 1895 Event - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City) 1892 Event - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) 1888 Event - East Africa Company political and commercial rights 1886 Event - 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine 1886 Event - 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts 1885 Event - Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film 1883 Event - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago 1880 Event - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1858 Event - 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed 1848 Event - 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established 1833 Event - U.S. and Siam sign commercial treaty 1827 Event - 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered 1819 Birthday - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, Crises Commercial 1815 Event - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1812 Event - 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser) 1782 Event - 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia 1675 Event - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) 1656 Event - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) 1629 Event - 1st commercial fishery established 1496 Event - England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders |
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