On October 29, 1858, the first store opens in a small frontier town in
Colorado Territory that a month later will take the name of Denver
in a shameless ploy to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. The town was a brainchild of a promoter and real estate salesman from Kansas named William H. Larimer Jr.
James William "Jim" Denver
(October 23, 1817 – August 9, 1892)
(September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980)
Born Harland David Sanders, he was an American businessman
and entrepreneur, best known for building his Kentucky Fried
Chicken cafe into a fast-food empire.
He worked as a farmer, salesman, steamboat pilot, and railroad
fireman.
He sold KFC to John Y. Brown Jr., Jack Massey, and a group
of investors for $2 million in 1964.
On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo
officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging
service (SMS) for groups, to the public.
Born as a side project apart from Odeo’s main podcasting platform, the
free application allowed users to share short status updates with groups
of friends by sending one text message to a single number (“40404”).
Over the next few years, as Twttr became Twitter, the “microblogging”
service would explode in popularity, becoming one of the world’s
leading social networking platforms. Twitter was founded by Evan
Williams and another entrepreneur Noah Glass.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.
Twitter co-founder Noah Glass
Father’s Day has been celebrated on March 19 as Saint Joseph’s Day
since the Middle Ages. In America, Father’s Day was founded by
Sonora Smart Dodd (below) and celebrated on the third Sunday of
June for the first time in 1910. It is held on various days in many parts
of the world all throughout the year, often in the months of March, May
and June.
Sonora Smart Dodd (February 18, 1882 – March 22, 1978)
Harry Glickman (May 13, 1924 – June 10, 2020)
Glickman was a Portland, Oregon journalist, promoter, and sports
executive. He was one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers,
and the team’s president from 1987 to 1994.
