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2003 Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1954 Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1947 Hubert Ann Kelly, U.S. singer, Hues Corporation/Rock the boat 1946 Anthony Mayer, chief executive, Housing Corporation 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1939 Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation 1937 Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1935 Desmond Pitcher, CEO, Merseyside Development Corporation 1933 U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, created 1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized 1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress 1929 Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall 1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms 1926 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms 1926 National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America 1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created 1914 Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation 1909 Arnold Shaw, born in America, composer, songwriter, music business executive for Leeds Music Corporation, later MCA, wrote book on Harry Belafonte, series on 20th century American music 1900 U.S. Steel Corporation organizes 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) 1661 Corporation Act enforced in England |
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