Amazon Makes Its First Public Sale | On This Day

All right. Let's take a look back at this day in history, 30 years ago when Amazon. com went live to the public for the first time ever.And while the company had been founded a year earlier, it was on this day, July 16th, 1995, when Amazon made its first sale to the public, a book on computer models called Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, yet Snoozer. The book was technically ordered in April of that year, but for $27.95%. But Amazon didn't actually log the sale officially until July 16th.The man who ...