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2013 Event - Research In Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of wireless devices, releases the Blackberry 10, its newest operating system for Blackberrys; the company also announces two smartphones, the Z10 and Q10 2013 Event - In the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist posts on Twitter, a French court orders the company to reveal personal information about its users 2013 Event - UK's oldest music retailer HMV calls in administrators after talks to rescue the company fail; the company which has over 4,500 employees, opened its first shop on Oxford Street in 1921 2012 Event - A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012 2012 Event - UBS becomes the second bank after Barclays, to be fined for attempting to manipulate the Libor interbank lending rate; the company is fined $1.5 billion 2012 Event - George Lucas sells Lucasfilm Ltd. to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion; the sale includes the rights to the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' franchises 2012 Event - A large crude deposit of oil is found by Permex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, in the northern state of Tamaulipas; deposits could contain 250 - 400 million barrels of oil 2012 Event - The Japanese press reveals that Sharp Corporation, an electronics company, will cut 5,000 jobs worldwide 2012 Event - Deutsche Bank, the German global financial services company, announces plans to cut 1,900 jobs 2012 Event - The Egan-Jones Ratings Company projects Italy has a one-year default probability of 22%, downgrading the country to CCC+ from B+ 2012 Event - Strong manufacturing figures and company earnings cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach a four-year high 2012 Event - Argentina's Senate passes President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's bill to nationalize 51% of oil company YPF with overwhelming majority 2012 Event - Jose Garc’a-Margallo y Marfil, Spain's foreign minister, attacks Argentina's decision to nationalize the Argentine oil company YPF 2012 Event - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, introduces a bill to nationalize 51% of YPF, the Argentine oil company, to Congress 2012 Event - U.S. company Google, Inc., announces its 2012 first quarter earnings rose by more than 24%, and net profits increased to $8.14 billion 2012 Event - The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization 2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil 2012 Event - Wikileaks begins releasing 5 million emails from Stratfor, a private intelligence company 2012 Event - Procter & Gamble sells Pringles to the Kellogg Company for $2.7 billion 2012 Event - American Airlines' parent company announces it will cut 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce 2012 Event - A U.S. gene sequencing company, Illumina, adopts a poison pill strategy, fighting against a hostile big by Roche Holding 2012 Event - Apple, Inc. reports over 37 million iPhones and over 15 million iPads were sold during the 2011 fourth quarter; the company generated over $127 billion in revenue 2012 Event - The famous film and camera company Kodak, files for bankruptcy protection 2011 Event - U.S. company Hewlett-Packard adds Ralph Whitworth from Relational Investors to it's corporate-government activists on its board of directors 2011 Event - U.S. company Apple Inc. breaks company sales records with the release of its iPhone 4S smartphone with over 4 million units sold in 4 days 2011 Event - The El Paso natural gas exploration and pipeline company is purchased by Kinder Morgan for $21.1 billion in cash and stock 2011 Event - According to Bloomberg, Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange 2011 Event - The Tokyo Electric Power Company claims three Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors partially melted down during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011 Event - Jimmy Choo, a U.S. company, is sold to Labelux, a private equity firm for $800 million 2011 Event - The Tokyo Electric Power Company together with the Government of Japan will not cap compensation payments resulting from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents 2011 Event - Each household within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant will receive 1 million yen from the Tokyo Electric Power Company 2011 Event - With news that Facebook received investments of $500 million, analysts estimate the value of the company at $50 billion 2010 Event - Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others 2010 Event - Google's internet content provider license is renewed by China; the company is allowed to continue operating in the country 2004 Event - After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company 2003 Death - John Ritter, actor/comic, Three's Company, dies at 56 2002 Death - Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84 2001 Death - Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, started a major cosmetics company, dies at 83 2001 Death - William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87 1999 Death - Dave Longaberger, businessman, Basket company entrprenuer, dies at 64 1999 Death - Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75 1998 Death - Norman Fell, actor, Three's Company, dies at 74 1997 Death - Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79 1996 Death - Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82 1996 Death - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72 1995 Event - "Company" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 68 performances 1995 Death - Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82 1995 Death - Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47 1995 Event - "Company" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 68 performances 1995 Death - Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74 1993 Event - Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420 1990 Event - New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 1990 Event - "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV 1987 Event - North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video 1987 Event - Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company 1986 Event - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S. 1985 Event - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco 1983 Event - Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million 1980 Event - Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1979 Event - Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 1977 Event - 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes 1977 Event - President Carter meets with 15 record company executives 1977 Death - Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 1973 Event - Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens 1972 Birthday - 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 Event - "Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 690 performances 1971 Event - 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth and Company win 1970 Event - "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances 1970 Birthday - Fran Robinson, born in California, actress, Lauren-Charlie and Company 1968 Death - Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52 1968 Event - London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona 1967 Birthday - Vin Diesel, born in New York City, New York, actor, director, producer, appeared in 'The Fast and the Furious', 'Pitch Black', founder of One Race Films production company 1964 Event - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs 1964 Event - Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd 1964 Event - George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company 1963 Event - Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) 1961 Death - Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67 1960 Event - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels 1959 Birthday - Jenilee Harrison, born in Glendale, California, actress, Cindy-3's Company, Dallas 1957 Birthday - 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 Event - Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee 1955 Birthday - Priscilla Barnes, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, actress, License to Kill, 3s Company 1955 Birthday - Andrew Stevens, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury 1955 Event - 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 Event - "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances 1952 Event - "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances 1951 Birthday - 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 Event - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1951 Birthday - Robert Iger, born in Los Angeles, California, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, succeeded Michael Eisner 1949 Birthday - Simon Kirke, rocker, Bad Company 1949 Birthday - Simon Kirke, rock drummer, Bad Company 1949 Birthday - Joyce DeWitt, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, actress, Janet Wood-Three's Company 1948 Birthday - 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 Birthday - John Ritter, born in Burbank, California, actor, Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire 1948 Birthday - Reed Hundt, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Federal Communications Commission chairman, 1993 - 1997, advisor to McKinsey & Company 1948 Birthday - John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company 1946 Birthday - Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress, 3's Company, Step by Step 1945 Birthday - Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company 1944 Birthday - Mick Ralphs, born in Hereford, England, born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of music bands Mott the Hopple and Bad Company 1944 Birthday - John Napier, London, set designer for the Royal Shakesphere Company 1943 Birthday - Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian, Roll Out, Harris and Company 1943 Death - Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49 1942 Birthday - Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer, Company 1942 Death - Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58 1942 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Beth Howland, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Vera-Alice, Company 1940 Event - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company 1940 Event - 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Company plant explodes, New Jersey 1940 Birthday - Kip King, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Charlie and Company 1940 Birthday - James Blyth, born in Britain, businessman, head of defense sales for Ministry of Defense, chairman, London Business School, CEO, The Boots Company 1938 Birthday - 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 Birthday - H N L Keswick CEO, Matheson and Company 1937 Birthday - Ronald Brierley, company chairman 1937 Birthday - Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company 1934 Birthday - Jacques d'Amboise, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet Company 1934 Birthday - 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 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant 1932 Birthday - Peter Holmes, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Company 1931 Birthday - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor, Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug 1930 Birthday - Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1930 Birthday - Stephen Sondheim, born in New York City, lyricist, West Side Story, Company 1929 Birthday - Berry Gordy, Jr., Detroit, record company owner, Motown 1928 Event - Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company 1927 Event - Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) 1927 Event - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile 1927 Birthday - Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive 1927 Event - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA 1926 Birthday - Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1926 Birthday - John Clark, CEO, Plessey Company 1926 Birthday - Elaine Stritch, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, My Sister Eileen, Company 1926 Birthday - Charles Tidbury, former chairman, Whitbread and Company 1925 Birthday - Marvin Davis, Newark, New Jersey, CEO, Davis Oil Company 1925 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Don Knotts, born in Morgantown, West Virginia, actor, Amdy Griffth Show, 3's Company 1924 Event - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile 1924 Birthday - Norman Fell, Philadelphia, actor, Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate 1923 Birthday - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder 1923 Event - Disney company founded 1923 Birthday - William B. Williams, born in Babylon, New York, DJ, WNEW, Sammy and Company 1923 Birthday - Ewart G Abner, record company executive 1923 Birthday - Douglas Wass, CEO, Equity and Law Life Assurance Company 1923 Event - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company 1922 Event - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films 1921 Event - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster 1920 Event - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10 1918 Birthday - Audra Lindley, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers 1916 Event - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo 1915 Event - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile 1915 Birthday - Cy Walter, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pianist, 3's Company 1914 Birthday - Sidney George Gray, company secretary 1912 Birthday - Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1912 Birthday - Ian Morrow, company director 1909 Event - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London 1907 Birthday - Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company 1907 Birthday - Owain Jenkins, company director 1905 Event - Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms 1905 Death - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 1904 Event - Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms 1903 Event - Pepsi Cola company forms 1902 Event - Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms 1901 Event - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens 1898 Event - North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company forms 1895 Event - 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company 1895 Birthday - Juanita Hansen, born in Iowa, actress in Fast Company, Broadway Love 1894 Event - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1893 Birthday - William March, Campbell, U.S., writer, Company K 1893 Event - Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave 1892 Event - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company 1892 Event - General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York 1891 Event - Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike 1890 Event - King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company 1888 Event - French Panama Canal company fails 1888 Event - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company 1888 Event - East Africa Company political and commercial rights 1886 Event - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1884 Birthday - Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company 1882 Event - Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii) 1880 Event - Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut 1879 Event - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company 1878 Event - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1876 Birthday - Frank L Gillespie, Arkansas, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company 1876 Birthday - Katherine Griffith, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Pollyanna, Fast Company 1875 Birthday - Walter Chrysler, founded car company, Chrysler 1872 Event - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time 1869 Event - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada 1866 Birthday - Cornelis J K van Aalst, president, Dutch Trading Company 1866 Event - 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut 1862 Event - North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF 1860 Birthday - 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 Event - Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown 1857 Birthday - Fannie Farmer, actress, namesake of a candy company 1852 Event - Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands 1850 Birthday - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company 1850 Event - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized 1848 Death - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 1847 Event - United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon 1844 Birthday - Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company, 57 varieties 1843 Event - 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens 1842 Birthday - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company 1842 Event - 1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City 1840 Birthday - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company 1839 Event - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio 1839 Event - Aden conquered by British East India Company 1835 Event - Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand 1835 Event - 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI) 1834 Event - Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile 1827 Event - Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java 1810 Event - 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 1810 Event - 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1800 Event - Dutch East Indies Company dissolves 1799 Event - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in New York City (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 1775 Event - 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents 1771 Event - West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname 1768 Event - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) 1762 Birthday - Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, director-general, East Indies Company 1760 Death - Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 1759 Event - 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia 1749 Event - English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1749 Event - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley 1712 Death - John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63 1685 Birthday - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company 1683 Event - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname 1674 Event - 2nd West Indie Company forms 1670 Event - King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company 1668 Event - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1663 Event - King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company 1641 Event - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola 1641 Event - United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed 1627 Event - English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company 1621 Event - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) 1606 Event - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va 1602 Event - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms 1601 Event - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1600 Event - British East India Company chartered 1597 Event - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East 1594 Event - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies |
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