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McDonald's

American fast food restaurant chain

8 dated entries naming McDonald's, drawn from 6 separate years between 1955 CE and 1990 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.

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20th century

  • 1955April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.source
  • 1971December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.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

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