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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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