Suing Groupon

Time: May, 2015 warning

Place: U.S.

Details: In May 2015, Groupon sued IBM accusing it of patent infringement, two months after IBM accused Groupon of patent infringement in a separate lawsuit.

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Abraham Lincoln-Secessionists implemented plans to leave the Union before he took office

1861 - U.S.

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Monday Jan 11, 2021 - U.S., and Worldwide

Frederick Douglass-Douglass published an open letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld

Sunday Sep 17, 1848 - U.S.

Kobe Bryant-McDonald's All-Americans

2012 - U.S.

Robin Williams-Best Supporting Actor

Tuesday Dec 2, 1997 - U.S.

Computer animation-Evans & Sutherland

1968 - U.S.

W. E. B. Du Bois-Canceled project

1938 - U.S.

Frank Sinatra-Sinatra's last studio recording for Columbia

Wednesday Sep 17, 1952 - U.S.

Flag of the United States-Battle of White Plains Issue

1926 - U.S.

Juneteenth-The Great Depression forced many black people off farms and into the cities to find work

1930s - U.S.

Martial arts-LINE

1989 - U.S.

Bay of Pigs Invasion-The CIA Put forward their Plan

Thursday Mar 17, 1960 - U.S.

Cameras-The Super Kodak

1938 - U.S.

Hachikō-Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Saturday Jun 13, 2009 - U.S.

Black Friday-Panic of 1869

Friday Sep 24, 1869 - U.S.

Bitcoin-Bitcoin is back above $60,000 as Coinbase gets ready for a public debut

Saturday Apr 10, 2021 - U.S., and Worldwide

Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln and the Republicans rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise

1860 - U.S.

Dwayne Johnson-First Lead Role

Friday Apr 19, 2002 - U.S.

Juneteenth-Ralph Ellison's novel Juneteenth was published

1999 - U.S.

Visa Inc.-The directors of IBANCO determined that bringing the various international networks together into a single network with a single name internationally would be in the best interests of the corporation

1976 - U.S.

Computer animation-The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002 - U.S. and New Zealand

Tony Hawk-Seond Marriage

1996 - U.S.

Penicillin-People began using it to treat infections

1942 - U.S.

Shaquille O'Neal-O'Neal starred in a reality show called Shaq Vs.

Tuesday Aug 18, 2009 - U.S.

Atlantic Charter-Churchill argued for an interpretation of the charter in order to allow the Soviet Union to continue to control the Baltic states

Mar, 1944 - U.S.

The US- China trade conflict-Washington Implements Second Wave of Tariffs on Chinese Goods

Saturday Aug 23, 2025 - US

Robin Williams-First film role

Wednesday Aug 10, 1977 - U.S.

Howard Hughes: The Aviator-TWA Takeover

1939 - U.S.

Nikola Tesla-Talking With Planets

Saturday Feb 9, 1901 - U.S.

The US- China trade conflict-US tariffs take effect

Thursday Jun 7, 2018 - US

Sofia Kenin-Career-rank 37

Monday Jan 14, 2019 - U.S.

Red Summer-A. Mitchell Palmer reported to Congress on the threat that anarchists and Bolsheviks posed to the government

Monday Nov 17, 1919 - U.S.

Cameras-New Standards

1988 - Worldwide

Mobile Phones-Looking To data-optimized 4th-generation Technologies

2009 - U.S.

Donald Trump-Individual-1

Thursday Nov 29, 2018 - U.S.

Robert Fulton-Returning to the U.S.

1806 - U.S.

American Sniper: Christopher Scott Kyle-Autobiography release

2012 - U.S.

Eminem-RECOVERY announcement

Wednesday Apr 14, 2010 - U.S.

Huawei-The U.S. Federal prosecutors formally indicted Meng and Huawei

Monday Jan 28, 2019 - U.S.

Warren Buffett-Media General

May, 2012 - U.S.

Margaret Thatcher-The International Visitor Leadership Program

1967 - U.S.

Franklin D. Roosevelt-U.S. Presidential election 1940

Tuesday Nov 5, 1940 - U.S.

Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 Coronavirus outbreak-U.S. becomes the Highest in Death Toll

Saturday Apr 11, 2020 - U.S.

Uber-"Asshole culture" of Uber

Thursday Oct 23, 2014 - U.S.

Juneteenth-Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised black people

1908 - U.S.

Ruby Bridges-1998 made-for-TV movie Ruby Bridges

1998 - U.S.

Mobile Phones-The DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone

Sunday Mar 6, 1983 - U.S.

Eminem-Kick off

Saturday Dec 1, 2018 - U.S.

Coverture-Extended from Coverture

1972 - U.S.

Nikola Tesla-Tesla coil

1891 - U.S.

Laser-Gould continued developing the idea, and filed a patent application

Apr, 1959 - U.S.

Black Friday-The earliest known use of "Black Friday"

1951 - U.S.

Juneteenth-Civil Rights Movement focused the attention of African Americans on expanding freedom and integrating

1960s - U.S.

Christopher Paul Gardner-Child Support

2000s - U.S.

Computer animation-Toy Story

1995 - U.S.

Virtual reality-The first head-mounted display System

1968 - U.S.

League of Nations-Creation of international bodies with administrative and legislative powers

1915 - U.S

Red Summer-Armed resistance movement

Sep, 1919 - U.S.

USA civil war-Final Confederate Surrender

Monday Nov 6, 1865 - U.S

Juneteenth-American corporations and educational institutions announced that they would treat Juneteenth as a company holiday

2020 - U.S.

Willis Carrier-Apparatus for Treating Air

Tuesday Jan 2, 1906 - U.S.

Visa Inc.-Visa sold 406 million shares at US$44 per share ($2 above the high end of the expected $37–42 pricing range), raising US$17.9 billion in the largest initial public offering in U.S. history

Tuesday Mar 18, 2008 - U.S.

Donald Trump-Among several State Department employees testifying to congressional committees

Oct, 2019 - U.S.

Nikola Tesla-Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States

Thursday Jul 30, 1891 - U.S.

Anna May Wong-Wong was supportive of Adlai Stevenson's campaign

1952 - U.S.

Computer animation-Babylon 5

1993 - U.S.

3D printing-The first decade in which metal end-use parts

2010s - U.S. and Worldwide

Donald Trump-Trump was reclassified

1972 - U.S.

Atari, Inc.-The Federated Group

1987 - U.S. and Europe

Chris McCandless: Into the Wild-Travels

1990 - U.S.

Financial crisis of 2007–2008-The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 was enacted

Wednesday Jul 30, 2008 - U.S.

Spanish Flu-WWI End

Monday Nov 11, 1918 - U.S.

Abraham Lincoln-Failure of the Compromise of 1850

Sep, 1850 - U.S.

Michael Jordan-Major League Baseball strike

Mar, 1995 - U.S.

Tony Hawk-John Cardiel Opinion

Jan, 2013 - U.S.

Financial crisis of 2007–2008-Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

Apr, 2011 - U.S.

John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind-John Von Neumann Theory prize

1978 - U.S.

Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 Coronavirus outbreak-American national emergency

Friday Mar 13, 2020 - U.S.

Android-The last of Google Play edition

2015 - U.S.

Marilyn Monroe-Marilyn Monroe Productions Announcement

Friday Jan 7, 1955 - U.S.

Virtual reality-VPL Research

1985 - U.S.

Rosa Parks-Rosa succeeded in registering to Vote

1945 - U.S.

Xanax-Approved

1981 - U.S.

Trivial Pursuit-A version of Trivial Pursuit hosted by Wink Martindale

1993 - U.S.

Frank Fritz -Fritz and Bankson Engagement

2017 - USA

Anna May Wong-New Chinese Recipes

1942 - U.S.

Eminem-Jacques Loussier

Sunday Mar 31, 2002 - U.S.

Computer animation-Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001 - U.S. and Japan

Neil Armstrong-1st Divorce

1994 - U.S.

Tony Hawk-RIDE Channel

Jan, 2012 - U.S.

Eminem-United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in F.B.T. Productions

Jul, 2010 - U.S.

Anna May Wong-The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong

Monday Aug 27, 1951 - U.S.

Visa Inc.-Manager at the National Bank of Commerce , Dee Hock, was asked to supervise that bank's launch of its own licensed version of BankAmericard in the Pacific Northwest market

1968 - U.S.1

Murder of Gabriel Fernandez by Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre-Pearl's Birth

Monday Aug 29, 1983 - U.S.

Bank of America-Separation of Transamerica Corporation and Bank of America

1953 - U.S.

Shaquille O'Neal-O'Neal made several appearances in World Championship Wrestling

1994 - U.S.

Computer animation-First film using Fractals

1982 - U.S.

World War II-Operation Sledgehammer

1942 - U.S.

Great Depression-Civilian Conservation Corps is created

Friday Mar 31, 1933 - U.S.

Robin Williams-His source of humor

2001 - U.S.

May 2015

Google LLC-Google announced Its Intention to create its own Campus in Hyderabad

May, 2015 - Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Oculus-Acquiring Surreal Vision

May, 2015 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Tesla, Inc.-Model S cars

May, 2015 - U.S.

Prince William-Princess Charlotte Birth

Saturday May 2, 2015 - London, United Kingdom

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge-Princess Charlotte

Saturday May 2, 2015 - London, England, U.K.

Lionel Messi-Boss Messi

Wednesday May 6, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain

David Cameron-Cameron was re-elected UK Prime Minister

Thursday May 7, 2015 - London, England

David Cameron-The Conservative Party's decisive win in the General Election

Thursday May 7, 2015 - England

Bank of America-Bank of America announced it would reduce its financial exposure to coal companies

Wednesday May 6, 2015 - U.S.

Prince Harry-Harry's attachment Ending

Friday May 8, 2015 - The Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australia

Aaron Hernandez-Hernandez was indicted for witness intimidation

Monday May 11, 2015 - Florida, U.S.

Pope Francis-First Canonizations

Tuesday May 12, 2015 - Vatican City

Facebook, Inc.-Facebook In association With Major News Portals Launched "Instant Articles"

Wednesday May 13, 2015 - Menlo Park, California, U.S.

Gary Ridgway-Ridgway transferred to the USP Florence prison

Thursday May 14, 2015 - Florence Prison Central Building, 1111 E Butte Ave, Florence, Arizona 85132, United States

John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind-Abel Prize

Tuesday May 19, 2015 - Oslo, Norway

New York Stock Exchange-DJIA achieved an all-time high of 18,351.36

Tuesday May 19, 2015 - New York City, New York, U.S.

Colombian conflict-The FARC suspended a truce

Friday May 22, 2015 - Colombia

John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind-Death

Saturday May 23, 2015 - Monroe Township, New Jersey, U.S.

3D printing-1000 components manufactured by 3D printing

May, 2015 - France

Sepp Blatter-The 65th FIFA Congress In Zürich

Friday May 29, 2015 - FIFA headquarters, Zurich, Switzerland

Joe Biden-Death of Beau Biden

Saturday May 30, 2015 - Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.

Francesco Totti-Final match-day of the 2014–15 season

Sunday May 31, 2015 - Rome, Italy

2015

Visa Inc.-Australian Federal Court ordered Visa to pay a pecuniary penalty of $20 million

2015 - Australia

Huawei-Discontinuing The "Ascend" brand

Jan, 2015 - Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

David Cameron-Cameron Travelled To Saudi Arabia

Jan, 2015 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prince Harry-Supporting Wounded Service Personnel

Thursday Jan 1, 2015 - London, England

Halimah Yacob-The PAP's Central Executive Committee

Jan, 2015 - Singapore

Sooronbay Jeenbekov-The Director of the State Personnel Service

2015 - Kyrgyzstan

Adidas-The Brand ambassador To The Company's Products

2015 - Herzogenaurach, Germany

Adidas-Adidas Launched The Footwear Industry's First Reservation Mobile App

Jan, 2015 - Herzogenaurach, Germany

PlayStation Network-5-day extension to PlayStation Plus memberships

Thursday Jan 1, 2015 - Tokyo, japan

Nike, Inc.-Introducing The Nike Mag

2015 - U.S.

Sofia Kenin-Winning Grade 1 tournament

2015 - U.S.

Android-The last of Google Play edition

2015 - U.S.

World Bank-Millennium Development Goals targets

2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Kaká-Designated Player

Jan, 2015 - Florida, U.S.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex-Early career difficulties

2015 - U.S.

Nike, Inc.-Phil Knight announcemed That He Would Step Down

2015 - Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.

Virtual reality-HTC and Valve

2015 - Bellevue, Washington, United States

Virtual reality-Google Cardboard

2015 - Mountain View, California, U.S.

Virtual reality-Project OSVR

2015 - Irvine, California, U.S.

Amazon-Amazon unveils Amazon Echo

2015 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Dollar Tree-Dollar Tree announced plans to divest 300 stores

Jan, 2015 - U.S.

Cristiano Ronaldo-2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or

Monday Jan 12, 2015 - Zürich, Switzerland

Nintendo-Leaving Brazilian market

Jan, 2015 - Brazil

Qasem Soleimani-The Main Architect

2015 - Syria

YouTube-Google announced that 360-degree video would be natively supported on YouTube

Jan, 2015 - Mountain View, California, U.S.

Internet-Republicans presented legislation

Friday Jan 16, 2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Carlos Slim-The Largest Shareholder in the New York Times Company

Tuesday Jan 20, 2015 - New York, U.S.

Microsoft-Microsoft Surface Hub

Wednesday Jan 21, 2015 - Redmond, Washington, U.S.

Facebook, Inc.-Facebook's attempt To Filter out False or Misleading Content

Wednesday Jan 21, 2015 - Menlo Park, California, U.S.

Uber-Uber gets $1.6 billion from Goldman Sachs in debt financing

Thursday Jan 22, 2015 - New York City, New York, U.S.

Uber-Uber launches its first product in East Africa

Friday Jan 23, 2015 - Nairobi, Kenya

OnePlus-Partnering with Lazada Indonesia

Friday Jan 23, 2015 - Indonesia

Donald Trump-Trump's lawyer threatened Fordham University and the New York Military Academy

2015 - U.S.

Donald Trump-Trump said that the medical deferment was due to a bone spur in a foot

2015 - U.S.

Dwayne Johnson-Royal Rumble (2015)

Sunday Jan 25, 2015 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Oculus-HQ Transported

Jan, 2015 - Menlo Park, California, U.S.

Kevin Hart-The Wedding Ringer

Jan, 2015 - U.S.

Donald Trump-Trump makes a lot of money with the Saudis

2015 - U.S.

Library of Congress-Under pressure

2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.

YouTube-YouTube announced that HTML5 would be the default playback method on supported browsers

Jan, 2015 - San Bruno, California, U.S.

Donald Trump-Honorary Doctor of Business Administration

2015 - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qasem Soleimani-Soleimani laid wreaths at the graves of the slain Hezbollah members

Thursday Jan 29, 2015 - Beirut, Lebanon

Carlos Slim-Claro Musica

Jan, 2015 - Mexico

Internet-("with some caveats")

Saturday Jan 31, 2015 - U.S.

Jackie Chan-Knight Commander Title

Sunday Feb 1, 2015 - Malaysia

Mohamed Salah-To Fiorentina

Monday Feb 2, 2015 - Florence, Italy

Uber-Uber opens robotics research facility In Pittsburgh to build self-driving cars

Tuesday Feb 3, 2015 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Zoom Video Communications-Zoom received US$30 million in Series C funding

Wednesday Feb 4, 2015 - San Jose, California, U.S.

Conflict in Myanmar-Government Forces launched a series of Military Operations

Monday Feb 9, 2015 - Kokang, Myanmar

Harald V-The world's first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica

Wednesday Feb 11, 2015 - Antarctica

Adidas-Kanye West Collaborated With Adidas

Saturday Feb 14, 2015 - Herzogenaurach, Germany

Uber-Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, the two biggest players in the low-cost app-based taxi hailing market in China

Sunday Feb 15, 2015 - China

YouTube-YouTube Kids

Feb, 2015 - San Bruno, California, U.S.

Bitcoin-Release 0.10 of the software was made public

Monday Feb 16, 2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Emmanuel Macron-Special 49.3 procedure

Tuesday Feb 17, 2015 - France

Samsung-Acquiring LoopPay

Wednesday Feb 18, 2015 - U.S.

Uber-Uber raises an additional $1 billion in its $40 billion pre-money valuation Series E

Thursday Feb 19, 2015 - U.S.

Donald Trump-Not ready to sign on for another season

Feb, 2015 - U.S.

Prince William-China visit

Feb, 2015 - China

HTC-Vive

Mar, 2015 - Xindian, New Taipei, Taiwan

Colombian conflict-FARC begin humanitarian demining

Mar, 2015 - Colombia

Carlos Slim-Spanish Real Estate

Mar, 2015 - Spain

Kaká-Draw on his MLS debut

Sunday Mar 8, 2015 - Florida, U.S.

Hachikō-Tokyo University Statue

Monday Mar 9, 2015 - Tokyo, Japan

Richard Branson-Virgin Trains East Coast commenced operating the InterCity East Coast franchise

Mar, 2015 - England, United Kingdom

Eminem-10-disc vinyl box set

Thursday Mar 12, 2015 - U.S.

YouTube-YouTube enabled 360° videos which can be viewed from Google Cardboard

Friday Mar 13, 2015 - San Bruno, California, U.S.

PlayStation Network-Premier entertainment service

2015 - Tokyo, Japan

YouTube-Support for 4K resolution was added

Mar, 2015 - San Bruno, California, U.S.

Nintendo-Codename "NX"

Monday Mar 16, 2015 - Kyoto, Japan

Nintendo-DeNA Partnership

Monday Mar 16, 2015 - Tokyo, Japan

Kevin Hart-Hart starred in the film Get Hard

Mar, 2015 - U.S.

Prince Harry-Kensington Palace announcement

Tuesday Mar 17, 2015 - Kensington Palace, London, England

St. Patrick's Day-Sarajevo Irish Festival

Tuesday Mar 17, 2015 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

IKEA-The Consumers Union of Korea's Report

Thursday Mar 19, 2015 - South Korea

Joe Biden-Skip Netanyahu's speech

Mar, 2015 - U.S.

Adidas-Adidas and McDonald's Unveiled the 2015 McDonald's All-American Uniforms

Tuesday Mar 24, 2015 - U.S.

Angelina Jolie-The Right Decision

Mar, 2015 - United States

Best Buy-Best Buy announced the shutdown of the Future Shop chain in Canada

Saturday Mar 28, 2015 - Canada

Dwayne Johnson-WrestleMania 31

Sunday Mar 29, 2015 - Santa Clara, California, U.S.

Xiaomi-Mi devices availble in Indian e-commerce

Apr, 2015 - India

Lula da Silva-The Public Ministry of Brazil opened an investigation into allegations of influence peddling by Lula

Wednesday Apr 1, 2015 - Brazil

DC Comics-DC Super Hero Girls universe

Apr, 2015 - U.S.

DC Comics-Convergence

Apr, 2015 - U.S.

Tesla, Inc.-Powerwall home and Powerpack industrial battery packs

Apr, 2015 - Palo Alto, California, U.S.

Google LLC-Google announced Project Fi

Apr, 2015 - Mountain View, California, U.S.

Carlos Slim-Marquette Building

Apr, 2015 - 243 West Congress Street Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Netflix-Audio description

Apr, 2015 - U.S.

Shaquille O'Neal-O'Neal joined the cast in the South Korean variety television show Off to School

2015 - South Korea

Prince Harry-Harry reported for duty to Australia's Chief of the Defence Force

Monday Apr 6, 2015 - The Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australia

Black Friday-Amazon.com held a "Prime Day" event in July and promised better deals than on Black Friday

2015 - U.S.

Black Friday-6.7 million plan on buying something on biggest shopping event of the year in Romania

2015 - Romania

Black Friday-Swiss retailer Manor was the first to launch a special Black Friday promotion

2015 - Switzerland

Black Friday-Asda announced that it would not take part in the 2015 Black Friday

2015 - United Kingdom

Black Friday-£2bn spent in shops and online in 24 hours

2015 - United Kingdom

Nokia-Nokia announced that it had agreed to purchase Alcatel-Lucent

Tuesday Apr 14, 2015 - Espoo, Finland

Internet-Net Neutrality

Tuesday Apr 14, 2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Carlos Slim-Carso Oil & Gas

Wednesday Apr 15, 2015 - Plaza Carso, Mexico City, Mexico

International Monetary Fund-Former IMF Managing Director Rodrigo Rato was arrested

Thursday Apr 16, 2015 - Madrid, Spain

Xiaomi-Mi 1s

Wednesday Apr 22, 2015 - Anningzhuang Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China