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Twitter goes public

The first day of trading on the NYSE, Twitter shares opened at $26.00 and closed at US$44.90, giving the company a valuation of around US$31 billion. The paperwork from this day shows that among the founders, Evan Williams received a sum of US$2.56 billion and Jack Dorsey received US$1.05 billion, while Dick Costolo's payment was US$345 million.

Sony and BMG create the world's #2 in music industry

In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment and transferred businesses of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group into the joint venture, although later in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake and the company reverted to the SME name.

Wamego LSD Missile Silo is discovered

The laboratory had been stored near a renovated Atlas-E missile silo near Wamego, Kansas. Gordon Todd Skinner, one of the men intimately involved in the case but not charged due to his cooperation, owned the property where the laboratory equipment was stored.

The first African American becomes Mayor of New York City

David Norman Dinkins is an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, the only African American to hold that office.

FDR wins unprecedented fourth term

Franklin D. Roosevelt won his 4th presidential election defeating Thomas E. Dewey. He totally achieved 53.4% of the popular vote and 432 out of the 531 electoral votes. In his campaign, Roosevelt supported participation in the international community and promoted strong United Nations.

Vladimir Lenin launches bloodless coup d'état against government

The October Revolution, officially known in Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–23. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd in 1917.

Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.

The first edition of London Gazette

The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published a newspaper in the UK, having been first published in 1665 as The Oxford Gazette. This claim is also made by the Stamford Mercury and Berrow's Worcester Journal because The Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage.

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