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Today in Entrepreneurial History: October 30

By on October 30, 2012 in History

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  • 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
  • 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
  • 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
  • 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

    • Pandoro is a traditional Italian sweet yeast bread, most popular around Christmas and New Year. You can order yourself, or a loved one, some at Amazon.

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