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