1997 Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89
1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1995 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1982 WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in U.S. history
1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1974 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1970 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
1965 Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
1961 John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1946 Tod Brannan, VP, Logos Network Corp
1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1944 U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans
1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1944 U.S. V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
1944 U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
1942 Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
1934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
1932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
1931 Richard Searby, deputy-chairman, News Corp Ltd-Australia
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc. and Chrysler Corp. merged
1927 Michael Sandberg, British CEO, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp
1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1926 Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old
1924 Lee A Iacocca, CEO, Chrysler Corp
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1923 U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1923 Laurence A. Tisch, born in New York City, CEO, Loews Corp
1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1915 Sargent Shriver, Maryland, Democratic VP candidate, 1972, /directed Peace Corp
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp
1913 John Pierpont Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75
1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works)
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp
1901 U.S. Steel Corp organized under J. P. Morgan
1901 Pierpont Morgan forms U.S. Steel Corp
1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp, 1925
1826 Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1825 Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp, died in 1865
1818 U.S. Medical Corp forms
1812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown, Virginia, 1st black major in U.S. Medical Corp
1735 John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp
1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control
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