Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar, who is now the 24th richest person in the world, starts a personal website called AuctionWeb on September 4, 1995. 9News
Mr Omidyar was stunned when somebody bought the first item on the site, a broken laser pointer, for $14.83.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Blanco had become one of the most powerful figures in the cocaine cartels, bringing in an estimated A$100 million a month at her career peak.As a kingpin in the Miami drug scene in the 1980s, she became feared and despised for her murderousness. Several of the airmen were sliced up and served as the main course in a lavish banquet held by senior Japanese officers on Chichijima, including a general and an admiral.
Nineteen-year-old Rust flew from Helsinki into the Soviet Union, landing in Red Square next to the Kremlin. Consequently, the remaining Allied signatures were displaced, and a blank line exists underneath the Australian signature.A shootout between Comancheros and Bandidos bikies in the western Sydney suburb of Milperra killed seven and injures 28 on September 2, 1984.The US Air Force's Blackbird reconnaissance plane set a record flight time from New York to London on September 1, 1974 - a landmark that remains to this day.
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