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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…
What happened to EasyBib? Why can’t I find it on Databases page?
As of July 31, 2017, EasyBib retired its Academic Edition, which is what was listed in among our subscription databases….
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…
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…
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…
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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...
This Day in Business History: Facebook IPOs
May 18 2012: Facebook started trading on NASDAQ as FB, with common stock priced at $38 per share. This gave Facebook a $104B valuation, nearly four times Google’s $23B valuation at it’s 2004 IPO. The IPO was notable for more...
This Day in Business History: Commercials for Last Episode of Seinfeld Priced at $2 ...
May 14 1998: Last episode of Seinfeld airs on NBC. Commercials are offered at $2M for 30 seconds. Seinfeld was slow to gain a following when it first aired on NBC July 5, 1989 but by its sixth season it was...