Three historic firsts

US President James Buchanan's Inauguration in 1857

I share with you today three historic photos, with a few more coming in a few days. Yes, they say there is a first for everything. 8 years ago we had America's first black President, and today we'll have the first President with absolutely no Government background. Best wishes to him and his Cabinet. And the first photo shows the very first time photography was used to capture a Presidential Inauguration, back in 1857 for President James Buchanan. Obviously the quality of the photo is very faint and blurry, but this was the early years of primitive photography, as we knew it until digital photography took over.

First ever computer, the ENIAC, assembled in 1940.

The second photo is just as historic and unbelievable as you see the first ever computer assembled, the ENIAC, which needed a pretty large room to contain all the wires, cabinets and connections. Today a person carries a computer in his or her pocket, and which is a billion times more powerful, more convenient, more practical, and with so much more information - all this in the size of a cell-phone or even a watch!

First McDonald's at San Bernardino, CA opened in 1940

The last photo for today is the first ever McDonald's, built in San Bernardino, California, and opened on May 15, 1940. Today there are 36, 615 outlets world wide, with a net income of $4.5 billion and total assets of $40 billion. There are 420,000 employees working for McDonald's all around the world.