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2004 After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company

2003 John Ritter, actor/comic, Three's Company, dies at 56

2002 Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84

2001 Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, started a major cosmetics company, dies at 83

2001 William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87

1999 Dave Longaberger, businessman, Basket company entrprenuer, dies at 64

1999 Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75

1998 Norman Fell, actor, Three's Company, dies at 74

1997 Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79

1996 Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82

1996 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72

1995 "Company" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 68 performances

1995 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82

1995 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47

1995 "Company" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 68 performances

1995 Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74

1993 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420

1990 New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917

1990 "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV

1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video

1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company

1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.

1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco

1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million

1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto

1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80

1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes

1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company executives

1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87

1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens

1972 Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon

1972 "Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 690 performances

1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth and Company win

1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances

1970 Fran Robinson, born in California, actress, Lauren-Charlie and Company

1968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52

1968 London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona

1964 George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs

1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd

1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company

1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)

1961 Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67

1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels

1959 Jenilee Harrison, born in Glendale, California, actress, Cindy-3's Company, Dallas

1957 Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix

1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee

1955 Priscilla Barnes, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, actress, License to Kill, 3s Company

1955 Andrew Stevens, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury

1955 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan

1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances

1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances

1951 Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company

1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

1949 Simon Kirke, rocker, Bad Company

1949 Simon Kirke, rock drummer, Bad Company

1949 Joyce DeWitt, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, actress, Janet Wood-Three's Company

1948 Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company

1948 John Ritter, born in Burbank, California, actor, Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire

1948 Reed Hundt, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Federal Communications Commission chairman, 1993 - 1997, advisor to McKinsey & Company

1948 John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company

1946 Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress, 3's Company, Step by Step

1945 Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company

1944 Mick Ralphs, born in Hereford, England, born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of music bands Mott the Hopple and Bad Company

1944 John Napier, London, set designer for the Royal Shakesphere Company

1943 Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian, Roll Out, Harris and Company

1943 Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49

1942 Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer, Company

1942 Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58

1942 Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization

1941 Beth Howland, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Vera-Alice, Company

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company

1940 Kip King, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Charlie and Company

1940 James Blyth, born in Britain, businessman, head of defense sales for Ministry of Defense, chairman, London Business School, CEO, The Boots Company

1938 David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley

1938 H N L Keswick CEO, Matheson and Company

1937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman

1937 Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company

1934 Jacques d'Amboise, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet Company

1934 Simon Mackay, born in Scotland, born Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries, Lord Tannlaw, crossbench member of the House of Lords, director or family company Inchape

1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant

1932 Peter Holmes, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Company

1931 Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor, Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug

1930 Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company

1930 Stephen Sondheim, born in New York City, lyricist, West Side Story, Company

1929 Berry Gordy, Jr., Detroit, record company owner, Motown

1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company

1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)

1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile

1927 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive

1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA

1926 Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company

1926 John Clark, CEO, Plessey Company

1926 Elaine Stritch, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, My Sister Eileen, Company

1926 Charles Tidbury, former chairman, Whitbread and Company

1925 Marvin Davis, Newark, New Jersey, CEO, Davis Oil Company

1925 David Bache, born in Worcestershire, England, David Ernest Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, established design company David Bache Associates, created the Land Rover, Series II Land Rover

1924 Don Knotts, born in Morgantown, West Virginia, actor, Amdy Griffth Show, 3's Company

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile

1924 Norman Fell, Philadelphia, actor, Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate

1923 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder

1923 Disney company founded

1923 William B. Williams, born in Babylon, New York, DJ, WNEW, Sammy and Company

1923 Ewart G Abner, record company executive

1923 Douglas Wass, CEO, Equity and Law Life Assurance Company

1923 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company

1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

1920 Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10

1918 Audra Lindley, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers

1916 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo

1915 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile

1915 Cy Walter, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pianist, 3's Company

1914 Sidney George Gray, company secretary

1912 Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles

1912 Ian Morrow, company director

1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London

1907 Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company

1907 Owain Jenkins, company director

1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms

1905 Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64

1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms

1903 Pepsi Cola company forms

1902 Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms

1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens

1898 North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company forms

1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company

1895 Juanita Hansen, born in Iowa, actress in Fast Company, Broadway Love

1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company

1893 William March, Campbell, U.S., writer, Company K

1893 Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave

1892 Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company

1892 General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York

1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike

1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company

1888 French Panama Canal company fails

1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company

1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights

1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company

1884 Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company

1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)

1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut

1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company

1878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

1876 Frank L Gillespie, Arkansas, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company

1876 Katherine Griffith, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Pollyanna, Fast Company

1875 Walter Chrysler, founded car company, Chrysler

1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time

1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

1866 Cornelis J K van Aalst, president, Dutch Trading Company

1866 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut

1862 North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF

1860 Will Keith Kellogg, born in America, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company, pioneered process of making flaked cereal, promoted corn flakes as a healthy breakfast cereal

1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown

1857 Fannie Farmer, actress, namesake of a candy company

1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands

1850 Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company

1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized

1848 John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84

1847 United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon

1844 Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company, 57 varieties

1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens

1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company

1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City

1840 Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company

1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio

1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company

1835 Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand

1835 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)

1834 Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile

1827 Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java

1810 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia

1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia

1800 Dutch East Indies Company dissolves

1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in New York City (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1775 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents

1771 West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname

1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)

1762 Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, director-general, East Indies Company

1760 Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75

1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia

1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post

1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley

1712 John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63

1685 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company

1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1674 2nd West Indie Company forms

1670 King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company

1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company

1641 West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola

1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed

1627 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company

1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)

1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London

1600 British East India Company chartered

1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East

1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies


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