Today in Entrepreneurial History: April 16

By Dane Carlson on April 16, 2012 in History

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• 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
• 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
• 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”.

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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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