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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Beatrix Potter wrote her first story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a letter for Noel Moore.
Arkansas' Governor used the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering school.
The first power plant in the US, 'Pearl Street Station,' in Manhattan, New York, started generating electricity.
A 400-year-old shipwreck was discovered just 15 miles off the coast of Portugal.
China's space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.
