Today in Entrepreneurial History: April 6

By Dane Carlson on April 6, 2012 in History

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• 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
• 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America’s first millionaire.
• 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
• 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman EmperorTheodosius I.
• 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

Happy Good Friday everyone!

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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