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2006 Apple's iTunes store sells it's 1 billionth song
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79 1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores 1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores 1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store 1991 Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records 1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album 1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) 1973 Walt Disney Store opens 1972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan) 1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) 1967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens 1967 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 1960 San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard 1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus 1953 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois 1947 Eddie Antar, founder/CEO, Crazy Eddie Electronics Store 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store 1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul 1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City 1902 J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming 1897 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author, Det Store Spelet 1888 Henry Armetta, Italian/U.S. actor, Bell for Adano, Big Store 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City) 1882 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University 1879 F. W. Woolworth opens 1st store, failed almost immediately 1879 1st 5 and 10 store opened by Frank W. Woolworth (Utica New York) 1878 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia 1875 James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney 1872 Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens 1858 Macy's Department store opens in New York City 1858 RH Macy and Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106 1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store 1848 1st department store opens 1838 John Wanamaker, merchant, Wanamakers Department Store 1834 Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner, Field Department Store 1759 1st music store in America opens in Philadelphia |
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