Inventor George Eastman patented camera shutters and trademarked the name “Kodak.”
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Google was founded.
Amazon became the second company in the world to be worth over $1 trillion.
The first power plant in the US, 'Pearl Street Station,' in Manhattan, New York, started generating electricity.
YouTube was fined $170 million for collecting data on child users.
International TV game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' was shown for the first time in the UK, with Chris Tarrant as the host.
