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1974 to 1993
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1994 to Today
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The McDonald's History - 1965 to 1973
 
McDonald's Comes To Wall Street
 
Graphic showing Wall Street sign and an upward arrow. In 1965 McDonald's went public with the company's first offering on the stock exchange. A hundred shares of stock costing $2,250 dollars that day would have multiplied into 74,360 shares today, worth approximately $3.3 million on December 31, 2006. In 1985 McDonald's was added to the 30-company Dow Jones Industrial Average. Click here for today's McDonald's stock price.
 
 
A Big Idea Called "Big Mac"
 
Big Mac sandwich. "Introduced systemwide in 1968, the Big Mac was the brainchild of Jim Delligatti, one of Ray Kroc's earliest franchisees, who by the late 1960s operated a dozen stores in Pittsburgh."
 
 
The Egg McMuffin
 
Egg McMuffin. Introduced in 1973, the Egg McMuffin was developed by owner operator Herb Peterson.
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