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We’re celebrating 25 years of award-winning results and female entrepreneurship from our Founder and CEO Carolyn Izzo-Feldman, but CIIC isn’t the only one blowing out our birthday candles. We share our anniversary with companies and events that changed the world as we know it today. From mega travel and tourism brands like WestJet, Expedia and Travelocity, to hospitality leaders Yard House and Caesars Entertainment, 1996 was a year of change and commerce in our favorite industries. Here’s to another quarter century!

Companies Founded in 1996:

1. WestJet Airlines

2. Expedia

3. Travelocity

4. MSNBC

5. DreamWorks

6. Caesars Entertainment

7. Yard House

8. Lexar

9. Fox Television Stations

10. Apple

11. eBay

12. Google

13. WebMD

14. Jimmy Choo

Major World Events in 1996:

15. NASA Launches the STS-72 Space Shuttle Mission

16. Taiwan’s First Presidential Election

17. Major League Soccer Has It’s First Season

18. The Summer Olympics are Held in Atlanta, United States

19. DVD’s are Launched in Japan

20. The Number of Users on the Internet Exceeds 10 Million

21. 1st Clamshell Flip Mobile Phone, the Motorola StarTAC Goes on Sale. Eventually, 60 Million are Sold

22. IBM Computer Deep Blue Becomes the First Computer to Win a Game of Chess Against a Reigning Chess Champion, Gary Kasparov

23. Nintendo Debuts Nintendo 6

24. We Said Goodbye to Ella Fitzgerald

25. British Girl Group, the Spice Girls, Released Their Debut Single “Wannabe” in the UK Changing Pop Music As We Know It

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