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McDonald's

American fast food restaurant chain

11 dated entries naming McDonald's, drawn from 8 separate years between 1955 CE and 2002 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as McDonald's Corporation in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1955April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.source
  • 1971July 20 - A first McDonald's fast food outlet open in Japan at Ginza, Tokyo.source
  • 1971December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.source
  • 19767 June – The nation's first McDonald's restaurant opens in central Porirua; a Big Mac initially cost 75c.source
  • 1979June 15 – McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product since February in franchises in the U.S. state of Missouri.source
  • 1979October 20 – The first McDonald's in Singapore opens at Liat Towers in Orchard Road.source
  • 1988March 24 – The first McDonald's restaurant in a country run by a Communist party opens in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It was later followed by one in Budapest, and in 1990 in Moscow, and Shenzhen, China.source
  • 1989May 3 – Cold War: Perestroika – The first McDonald's restaurant in the USSR begins construction in Moscow. It will open on January 31, 1990.source
  • 1990January 31 – Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russian SFSR opens 8 months after construction began on May 3, 1989. 8 months later the first McDonald's in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen.source
  • 1990October 8 – Globalization: The first McDonald's restaurant is opened in Mainland China in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special economic zone.source

21st century

  • 2002December 5 – A bomb exploded within an inner-city McDonald's restaurant in Makassar. The bombing was conducted by the Islamic group "Laskar Jundullah", which caused death to 3 people, including the bomber himself, and injured 15 others.source

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