Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Jacques Necker Before, the people had never considered governmental income and expenditure to be their concern, but the "Compte rendu" made them more proactive. (This birth of public opinion and interest played an important role in the French Revolution.) Maurepas became jealous and Vergennes called him a revolutionist. Necker contrived his own fall by declaring that he would resign unless given the full title and authority of a minister, with a seat on the Conseil du Roi. All the ministers threatened to abandon their post if this were done. When Necker was dismissed on 19 May 1781 people pilgrimaged to his estate;