Google founded by two PhD students from Stanford University in California. Kodak registered. Geronimo surrendered, ending the Indian Wars of the Southwest. The first NASCAR 500-mile race was held. Los Angeles, California is established. The first “American Idol” was voted stardom. The first transcontinental television broadcast in America took place, starring the president of the United States. One of the first tsunamis ever recorded destroyed the Japanese island of Kyushu. Nine black students were blocked from entering the school by the US National Guard. The first Edsel automobiles went on sale.
Google was founded. (1998) The Internet search engine was founded by two PhD students from Stanford University in California, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Today, more than a million servers worldwide are used to power Google, which processes more than a billion search requests a day.
The first transcontinental television broadcast in America took place, starring the president of the United States. (1951) United States President Harry S. Truman’s keynote address at the Japan Peace Treaty conference was broadcast live on the nation’s first coast-to-coast television broadcast.
Kodak has been registered. (1888) Inventor George Eastman registered his Kodak trademark the same day he obtained a patent for the camera he invented to use roll film.
The first NASCAR 500-mile race was held. (1950) The “Southern 500” was the first NASCAR race and was held at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. It was also the opening day of the racetrack, which still hosts NASCAR events today.
The first Edsel automobiles went on sale. (1957) 1,300 dealers offered the Edsel in four models: Corsair, Ranger, Pacer and Citation. The Edsel was not a popular automobile line. In its first year, only 64,000 cars were sold and the company lost $250 million (USD), the equivalent of $2.5 billion in 2010. The Edsel line folded three years later in 1960.
Geronimo surrendered, ending the Indian Wars of the Southwest. (1886) Geronimo, the chief of the Apache Indian tribe, had fought for 30 years to defend his Native American land, but finally admitted that he was vastly outnumbered. He was the last of the great Indian warriors to surrender.
Nine black students were blocked from entering the school by the US National Guard. (1957) Taking a stand against segregation, Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas used US reserve militia troops to prevent nine black students from entering a high school in Little Rock. Faubus was violating a federal desegregation order, and US President Dwight Eisenhower sent the US military to escort black children into the school.
Los Angeles, California is established. (1781) The city was founded by 44 Spaniards, who called it “The Borgo della Madonna Regina degli Angeli della Porziuncola”. The city later incorporated as Los Angeles after the United States bought California at the end of the Mexican-American War.
The first “American Idol” was voted stardom. (2002) The first “Idol” of the American television show American Idol was Kelly Clarkson. Her success continued after winning the competition and she went on to sell millions of records worldwide.
One of the first tsunamis ever recorded destroyed the Japanese island of Kyushu. (1596) A relatively minor earthquake caused a landslide that caused a 50-foot (about 15 meters) tidal wave to engulf the island, killing about 1,000 people. The wave also destroyed about 1,000 acres (about 4 square kilometers) of the Japanese mainland.
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