1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazed a group at Toynbee Hall in East London with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Every time Marconi hit a key a bell would ring from a box across the room being carried by William Henry Preece.
http://www.wired.com/2011/12/1212marconi-radio-demo-transatlantic/
1973 – Founder of LinkExchange, CEO of Zappos, and promoter of customer-centric business, Tony Hsieh was born.
http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/tag/tony-hsieh/
1980 – Apple’s stock was initially offered for sale. Regulators in Massachusetts prohibited individual investors in the state from buying the stock, as it was deemed too risky.
1991 – Paul Kunz set up the first website in North America. It searched particle physics literature at Stanford.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/december12/webturns10-1212.html
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