Business Buzz 66: Business Opportunities Weblog: Today in Entrepreneurial History: December 5

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Business Opportunities Weblog: Today in Entrepreneurial History: December 5 Dec 5th 2012, 17:20 Business Opportunities Weblog The original blog about business opportunities and business ideas for small business entrepreneurs Today in Entrepreneurial History: December 5 Dec 5th 2012, 17:09 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale. 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. 1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States). 1969 – The last of the ARPANET Nodes closed. Christie’s is an art business and a fine arts auction house, and currently the world’s largest with sales for the first half of 2012 some $3.5 billion representing the highest total for a corresponding period in company and art market history. The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England, on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766. However, other sources note that James Christie rented auction rooms from 1762, and newspaper advertisements of Christie’s sales dating from 1759 have also been traced. Christie’s soon established a reputation as a leading auction house, and took advantage of London’s new found status as the major centre of the international art trade after the French Revolution. From 1859, the company was called Christie, Manson & Woods. In 1958, it established its first overseas office, by placing a representative in Rome. The first overseas salesroom opened in Geneva, where Christie’s holds jewellery auctions. For more on the history of Christie’s, read Inside Christie’s. You can get it on Amazon for a penny. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

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