Google was founded.
On this day, Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google as a private company in California. However, the first initial public offering wasn’t until much later, on August 19, 2004.
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Peter III of Aragon became the King of Sicily.
Amazon became the second company in the world to be worth over $1 trillion.
A 400-year-old shipwreck was discovered just 15 miles off the coast of Portugal.
The first power plant in the US, 'Pearl Street Station,' in Manhattan, New York, started generating electricity.
Beatrix Potter wrote her first story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a letter for Noel Moore.
