On This Day in Business History Content Archive
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- September 1 in business history: the charter, the switchboard, and the tunnel
- September 2 in business history: the machine, the browser, and the recall
- September 3 in business history: the peak, the landing, and the acquisition
- September 4 in business history: the camera, the company, and the trillion-dollar test
- September 5 in business history: the free network, the licensed chip, and the probe that kept operating
- September 6 in business history: Internet access, Atlanta Life, and packaged freshness
- September 7 in business history: ESPN, iPhone 7, and Amazon HQ2
- September 8 in business history: Star Trek, Adallom, and DWAC
- September 9 in business history: NBC, Conestoga 1, and Apple
- September 10 in business history: The NYC Subway, Swanson TV Dinner, and Lehman Brothers
- September 11 in business history: Hamilton's Treasury, BART's first train, and Wall Street's liquidity shock
- September 12 in business history: eBay's Skype bet, Apple's iPhone 5, and the UFC-WWE merger
- September 13 in business history: Mary Kay's sales engine, Cisco's network protocol, and Arm's IPO
- September 14 in business history: IBM's real-time RAMAC, OPEC's founding, and the WorldCom-MCI merger
- September 15 in business history: a railway priced for freight, a newspaper priced for advertisers, and a $50 billion deal priced in stock
- September 16 in business history: a rollup the bankers took, a peg defended for a day, and 79.9 percent of AIG
- September 17 in business history: a kernel with no price, an $800 million launch day, and a league nobody paid to join
- September 18 in business history: a bond nobody would buy, a rescue agreed in a week, and $68 for the biggest IPO ever
- September 19 in business history: a short-selling ban and a guarantee on one Friday, a board's new CEO, and a treaty one side tried to leave
- September 20 in business history: a compiler IBM gave away, a liner built for a trade the jets had taken, and AT&T cut into three
- September 21 in business history: a wireless venture split 55–45, the last two investment banks taking a bank charter, and Cisco's $28 billion cheque
- September 22 in business history: a twelve-hour day, a communiqué, and the auction that priced Sky
- September 23 in business history: a Kyoto card shop, a $9 offer, and the last £200 million
- September 24 in business history: a corner broken at noon, a ¥1 million company, and a first week of 6,000 copies
- September 25 in business history: 51 amplifiers no ship could reach, a bank sold in a night, and the CEO Juul handed over
- September 26 in business history: a phrase Congress left undefined, $14 billion in one session, and a first close 11 percent below the offer
- September 27 in business history: one design repeated 2,710 times, a $2.7 billion write-off, and two million accounts
- September 28 in business history: a $199 tablet, a rescue that lasted five days, and a warning that halved the stock
- September 29 in business history: 777 points in a single session, 31 million bottles, and a 32-month countdown
- September 30 in business history: one possible buyer, a free interface, and a $7.25 reference price
- October 1 in business history: a scanner EMI could not sell, a network with two phones, and a website that took one application in a hundred
- October 2 in business history: a strip in seven papers, a $10,000 offer refused, and a $24 share price
- October 3 in business history: an exchange rate of one to one, 0.39 of a share, and 340 million downloads
- October 4 in business history: a train on borrowed track, a $150 first prize, and six hours offline
- October 5 in business history: a cigar town on 40 acres, thirteen free World Series, and a trade deal the United States left
- October 6 in business history: a safe on a moving train, a 400-point band, and an app that kept only photos
- October 7 in business history: a line that moved, an airline before its market, and a chip rule that ended as a fee
- October 8 in business history: a $2 bonus, a mall without a neighbourhood, and the first bank card
- October 9 in business history: one rate for the world's mail, six stations, and $1.65 billion in stock
- October 10 in business history: $2.4 million for a bridge, 22 days for a brand, and a car with no steering wheel
- October 11 in business history: a ferry run past a monopoly, 200 colour receivers, and a purchase pledge that arrived at 58 per cent
- October 12 in business history: a horse race for a wedding, a $6,500 black cube, and $67 billion for storage
- October 13 in business history: a licence won by lottery, a loan that never arrived, and the rights given up to close
- October 14 in business history: a deadline that had already passed, a range limit, and a fair's opening day
- October 15 in business history: a refused subsidy, a $35 billion share swap, and 142 closing stores
- October 16 in business history: a fake giant, a railroad built to be sold, and a bridge paid for twice
- October 17 in business history: twelve words a minute, a warning already on file, and a market with no shops
- October 18 in business history: two cents an acre, a $2 million radio, and a veto overridden 247 to 23
- October 19 in business history: a $25,000 car, 16 per cent of revenue, and 508 points
- October 20 in business history: an opera house priced at £3.5 million, a fourth gas tank, and a $259 e-reader
- October 21 in business history: a cement named Portland, a clearing house's refusal, and 135,000 books
- October 22 in business history: a copy made without chemicals, 11,345 dismissals, and Windows 7
- October 23 in business history: a $950,000 elephant, an underpriced order book, and a $399 player
- October 24 in business history: a dollar a word, a 50-cent crossing, and a day nobody had priced
- October 25 in business history: a $5 seat, a $100,000 satchel, and a $10 billion ceiling
- October 26 in business history: 45 unbuilt jets, a customer to identify, and $313 billion that never traded
- October 27 in business history: a commission the rule book fixed, a stocking Japan supplied, and $35 billion paid in shares
- October 28 in business history: half of one per cent, a fixed price, and a clause that defines AGI
- October 29 in business history: a $12.50 pen, two closed days on Wall Street, and 17.86 million births
- October 30 in business history: a provisional trade deal, a birthday bridge, and a $10 million purse
- October 31 in business history: a 5:55 single, a nine-page paper, and a $41 billion bankruptcy
- November 1 in business history: a 25,000-copy first run, four letters, and a 3% deficit
- November 2 in business history: a one-mile flight, a three-hour jury, and a $10,050 fine
- November 3 in business history: a 48,000-ticket car show, 150,000 wrong copies, and a $313 billion listing
- November 4 in business history: an incorruptible dial, ten car-free Sundays, and a revenue line cut by 56%
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