Today in Entrepreneurial History: November 12

By Dane Carlson on November 12, 2012 in History

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• 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
• 1892 – William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
• 1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
• 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
• 2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

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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 12,198 posts to the site.

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