Starbucks opened its first store at Pike Place Market in Seattle, founded by three friends, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who sold whole-bean coffee and equipment, and took the name from a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Howard Schultz joined in the early 1980s and, inspired by espresso bars in Milan, pressed for selling coffee drinks. He bought the company in 1987 and expanded it quickly across the United States, then overseas. Starbucks turned the coffeehouse into a global chain, with tens of thousands of stores, and shaped how many people buy and drink coffee, though it has also faced criticism over its business practices.
Before and after
- 4 February 1971Founding of Nasdaq
- from 26 March 1971 to 16 December 1971Bangladesh genocide
- from 26 March 1971 to 16 December 1971Bangladesh Liberation War
- 26 March 1971Establishment of Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
- 30 March 1971Construction of Starbucks
- 31 March 1971Birth of Ewan McGregor
- 6 April 1971Death of Igor Stravinsky
- 14 April 1971Establishment of Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
- 19 April 1971Launch of Salyut 1
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- from 1960 to 1970The Beatles
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The era
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