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1991 – Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-40 at 9:24:51 am EDT. Mission highlights: Spacelab mission. 1991 – A Royal Australian Air Force McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet, A21-041, of 75 Squadron, crashes 100 kilometres NE of Weipa, Queensland. The pilot was killed. The wreckage was found in July 1994.
The Reserve Primary Fund was the first money market fund that was set up. The investment fund active from 1970 until 2015. The fund was created in 1970 by Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown and it was managed by the Reserve Management Company. At its peak it held more than $60 billion in assets. [1]
Fireman's Fund provided Farm and Ranch insurance for American farmers since 1876 – owner occupied family farms and larger scale agricultural operations for ranchers, farmers, and dairy owners. Fireman's Fund was the first insurer in the United States to offer green insurance coverage for both personal and commercial lines, starting in 2006.
Oil traders, Houston, 2009 Nominal price of oil from 1861 to 2020 from Our World in Data. The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil ...
The Perpetual Emigration Fund ( PEF) was a 19th-century program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that provided economic assistance to emigrants seeking to join the main church community in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding regions. The fund concept was launched in 1849, two years after the first Mormon pioneers ...
Contents. History of Japan. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
AUM. $677 billion (Dec 31, 2023) [1] Number of employees. 1,600+ (2023) [2] Website. www .dimensional .com. Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (branded Dimensional abbreviated DFA [3]) is a privately-owned investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dimensional was founded in Brooklyn [4] in 1981 by David Booth, Rex Sinquefield and Larry Klotz.
28 March – first BBC broadcast from Plymouth (station 5PY). First UK Commemorative stamps. 23 April – first broadcast by King George V, opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium. [7] 26 April. Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince the War Office.