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1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league

1993 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time

1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38

1992 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel

1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid

1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)

1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

1987 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club

1986 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies

1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph

1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover

1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1984 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1984 Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies

1979 J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87

1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)

1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange

1971 Eric Stock, soccer player, NEC

1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange

1963 Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader

1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors

1962 U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day

1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets

1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay

1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates

1957 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge

1956 Matt Aitken, rocker, Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block

1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929

1951 Mike Stock, rocker, Stock, Aitken and Waterman-Road Block

1949 Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87

1947 Pete Waterman, rocker, Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block

1939 David Frederick Stock, composer

1934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78

1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression

1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1929 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch

1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City

1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)

1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange

1927 NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants

1926 Carleton Carpenter, born in Bennington, Vermont, actor, Up Periscope, Summer Stock

1921 Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange

1920 Eddie Bracken, born in Astoria, New York City, actor, Summer Stock, Young and Willing

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

1909 William Batten, CEO, New York Stock Exchange 1976-84

1901 Construction begins on New York Stock Exchange

1900 Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange

1894 HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76

1893 Great stock crash on New York stock exchange

1893 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange

1884 Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg

1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)

1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens

1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens

1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal

1872 Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orchestra

1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized

1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect, Stock exchange Amsterdam

1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices

1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange

1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)

1818 HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect, New Stock exchange Antwerp

1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1775 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents


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