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1995 New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM)
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks 1984 Rosser Reeves, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby, dies 1984 AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies 1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 1960 Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories 1941 1st U.S. federally owned airport opened Washington D.C. 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1938 Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews 1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) 1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City 1919 1st municipally owned airport in U.S. opens (Tucson Az) 1910 Rosser Reeves, born in Danville, Virginia, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) 1832 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies 1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized 1811 Albertus C. van Raalte, Dutch / U.S. vicar, owned land in Michigan 1794 New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British |
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