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
1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
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 US 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 HR 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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