Oprah

The Oprah Winfrey Show is the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States. The nationally syndicated show produced by Oprah Winfrey is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. The Chicago-based show's first national broadcast occurred on September 8, 1986.
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Google's first name

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the search engine they first called "BackRub" in reference to its unique ability to analyze the back links pointing to a given website. The term Google is a play on the word googol, a mathematical term that refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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First American Nobel Peace Prize

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He received his award in 1906 for helping mediate an end the Russo-Japanese War. The war ended with a treaty signed by the Russian and Japanese governments on September 5, 1905, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Monopoly

The real estate board game Monopoly was invented in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow. His first version of the game was rejected by Parker Brothers due to design flaws. After Darrow sold 5,000 handmade sets of the game to a Philadelphia department store, Parker Brothers agreed to sell the game. Since then over 200 million Monopoly games have been sold worldwide.
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Archie

The first Internet search engine was called "Archie." The original name was "archives," but was shortened to Archie. Archie was created in 1990 by McGill University student Alan Emtage to retrieve Internet file names from a database that matched a user query. A web interface to Archie was developed during the 1990s.
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EDUSAT

India launched the world's first dedicated education satellite in September 2004. The EDUSAT satellite was designed to provide a virtual classroom concept to offer education to children in remote villages, quality higher education to rural students, adult literacy programs, and training modules for teachers. India's 2001 census showed that about 35% of the country’s billion-plus population were illiterate.
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First billionaire

Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller's net worth topped 1 billion dollars in September 1916 making him the world's first billionaire. Rockefeller began his run in 1862 when he set up a new oil refining company called Standard Oil. By 1890, Rockefeller's company had a virtual lock on the U.S. oil refining market. This monopoly resulted in the breakup of Standard Oil by the Supreme Court in 1911.
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