Today in Entrepreneurial History: March 2

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1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
1953 – The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
1976 – Dane Carlson, founder of Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog is born.
1983 – Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.