Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 28

By Dane Carlson on January 28, 2013 in History

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• 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
• 1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
• 1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
• 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. via

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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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