This Day in Business History: Walt Disney Takes on a Big Contract and Founds His Ep ...
October 16, 1923: Walt Disney and M. J. Winkler sign an agreement for Disney to produce a series called “Alice Comedies.”…
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This Day in Business History: Lehman Brothers Files for the Largest Bankruptcy in A ...
September 15, 2008: After arduous but unsuccessful negotiations with the federal government and the leading investment banks of the world,…
This Day in Business History: The Invention of Multiline Insurance
September 12, 1950: The Pennsylvania Insurance Department approves the Insurance Company of North America’s request to go to market with a…
This Day in Business History: The Story of Cantor Fitzgerald and 9/11
September 11, 2001: September sadly marks the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Being a working…
This Day in Business History: Charles Ponzi Arrested
August 12, 1920: On this day, Charles Ponzi was arrested on 86 counts of mail fraud and went down in infamy…
This Day in Business History: “America’s First Supermarket” King ...
August 4, 1930: When Michael J. Cullen suggested to the management of Kroger, his employer at the time, that they reinvent…
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This Day in Business History: The Mercantile Agency (later D&B) is Founded
July 20, 1841: On this date, Lewis Tappan founded The Mercantile Agency to collect business information such as sales estimates and bill paying ability. In 1859, the company was sold to Robert Graham Dun and incorporated under a new name, R....
This Day in Business History: Opening Day at Disneyland
July 17, 1955: On a sunny Anaheim, California Sunday afternoon, Walt Disney opens his first theme park, Disneyland. Offering 5 theme lands with 18 attractions, the park took more than twenty years to plan and cost $17 million to build. Disney’s...
This Day in Business History: The First Walmart Opens
July 2, 1962: Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas at the age of 44. Sam Walton was no stranger to retail by this time. He worked for the J.C. Penney Company after college, which at that time was...
This Day in Business History: Napster Initiates Ripple of Disruption in the Music I ...
June 1, 1999: The world’s first peer-to-peer music sharing site, Napster, launched on this date. Before Napster, music lovers were limited to purchasing music as hard copies on CDs, vinyl, or cassettes. Napster enabled users to share music files in...