Business Birthdays and Anniversaries in November

BIRTHDAYS

• Nov 3, 1718  - John Montague, The Fourth Earl of Sandwich: He invented the sandwich as a time-saving nourishment during a 24-hour gambling session in 1762. The original consumer of fast food

• Nov 5, 1893 -  Raymond Loewy: Inventor, engineer and industrial designer, "father of streamlining" whose ideas are evident in everyday life.

• Nov 6, 1968 -  Jerry Yang: Co-founded Yahoo! with David Filo in 1995

• Nov 9, 1905 -  J. William Fulbright: US senator who sponsored legislation that created the Fulbright scholarships for international study for graduate students, faculty and researchers.

• Nov 14, 1765 -  Robert Fulton: Inventor of the steamboat

• Nov 14, 1863 -  Leo H. Baekeland: Inventor of Bakelite, the first commercial plastic. Used for telephones, radios and electrical insulators, it helped revolutionize everyday life.

• Nov 14, 1906 -  Soichiro Honda: Enterprising Japanese auto racer turned businessman who founded the Honda Motor Company.

• Nov 17, 1790 -  Aug Mobius: German astronomer, mathematician, teacher and author; a pioneer in the field of topology; first described the Mobius net and the Mobius strip.

• Nov 18, 1789 -  Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre: Inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process, one of the earliest to permit a photographic image to be chemically fixed to provide a permanent picture.

• Nov 19, 1909 -  Peter Drucker: Experts in the worlds of business and academia regard Peter Drucker as the founding father of the study of management.

• Nov 19, 1935 -  John F. Welch Jr.: Long-time chairman of GE

• Nov 19, 1938 -  Robert E. (Ted) Turner: Cable television pioneer and creator of CNN

• Nov 20, 1889 -  Edwin Powell Hubble: Astronomer whose discovery of the concept of an expanding universe has been described as the most "spectacular astronomical discovery" of the 20th century.

• Nov 24, 1888 -  Dale Carnegie: Inspirational lecturer and author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People."  Published in 1936, it has sold nearly 5 million copies, and has been translated into 29 languages.

• Nov 26, 1876 -  Willis H. Carrier: Inventor of modern air conditioning and founder of Carrier Corporation

ANNIVERSARIES IN NOVEMBER

• 2 - 1947: The world’s largest airplane (at the time), nicknamed the “Spruce Goose”, is flown by Howard Hughes.

• 3 - 1969: Public Television debuts.

• 5 - 1733: John Peter Zenger publishes first issue of the New York Weekly Journal newspaper. It sparks a landmark trial for freedom of the press. In the traditional English way of life, those who spoke out against the government could be tried and punished as traitors. Zenger was found not guilty of the charge of seditious libel, specifically because what he printed was true. This began a nationwide movement which continued until the close of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.

• 9 - 1965: East Coast blackout – massive electric power failure occurs, cutting off electricity to much of northeast US and Ontario and Quebec, Canada, affecting 30 million people.

• 10 - 1951: Area codes debut and the first long-distance call is made without an operator’s assistance. Mayor M. Leslie Downing of Englewood, N.J. picks up a telephone and dials 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reaches Mayor Frank Osborne in Alameda, Calif. The mayors' call proved a vast improvement over the first transcontinental telephone call 36 years earlier, when it took five operators and 23 minutes to set up a call from San Francisco to New York.

• 10 - 1983: Microsoft releases Windows, an extension of MS-DOS. Microsoft announces Windows, an extension to the MS-DOS operating system that provides a universal operating environment for developing bit-mapped application programs.  Microsoft Windows was announced at COMDEX with the support of 23 microcomputer hardware manufacturers and several leading software application developers.

• 13 - 1927 – The Holland Tunnel, running under the Hudson River, opens to traffic after seven years of construction. The toll in 1927 is fifty cents, and the trip takes only eight minutes. The tunnel is the longest underwater tunnel in the world, with its north tube 8,558 feet long and its south tube 8,371 feet long. On its first day of operation, 51,694 vehicles pass through. The total cost of the tunnel is $48 million. Today, it would cost approximately $1.4 billion.

• 13 - 1940: The Jeep, built by Willys, is introduced. A half-million of the rugged, lightweight, four-wheel-drive vehicles will be produced for World War II. The name “jeep” is generally thought to have come from GP, an acronym for “general purpose.” The military uses the Jeep until 1981, when it will be replaced by the Hummer.

• 15 - 1939: Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment check.

• 15 - 1971: Intel invents the single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004, enabling the "brains" of a computer to be on one chip for the first time.

• 18 - 1883: US Uniform Time Zone Plan of four standard time zones for the continental USA is adopted by the railroads. Until the invention of the railway, it took such a long time to get from one place to another that local "sun time" could be used. When traveling to the east or to the west, a person would have to change his or her watch by one minute every twelve miles. When people began traveling by train, sometimes hundreds of miles in a day, the calculation of time became a serious problem. Operators of the new railroad lines realized that a new time plan was needed in order to offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals.

• 18 - 1963: Electronic push-button phone debuts as an alternative to dialing. The Western Electric 1500 has 10 buttons. Calls can be placed approximately twice as fast as by dialing.

• 19 - 1954: First Automatic Toll Collection Machine on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway. The first automatic toll collection machine was placed in service at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway on this day. In order to pass through the toll area, motorists dropped 25 cents into a wire mesh hopper and then a green light would flash permitting passage through the toll.

• 27 - 1991: Bank Bailout Bill is approved by both houses of Congress for the FDIC.

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