Today in Entrepreneurial History: November 19

By Dane Carlson on November 19, 2012 in History

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• 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
• 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

If Puerto Rico becomes a state, November 19th is going to be important holiday. Although we already have a Columbus Day, the day that Columbus first “set foot in the United States” would suddenly become a big deal.

For more on Columbus, especially if you only know that in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue, read Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504.

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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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