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 execs
1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87
1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
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 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 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 John Ritter, born in Burbank, California, actor, Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire
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, guitarist, Mott the Hoople, 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
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
1938 H N L Keswick CEO, Matheson and Company
1937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman
1937 Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, Natl Black Theatre Company
1934 Jacques d'Amboise, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet Company
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/auto company exec
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
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 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 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
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 Darwins company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
1835 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
1834 Charles Darwins 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
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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