Today in Wall Street History
Business Topics: Banker - Bankruptcy - Business People - Companies - Financier - Industrialist - Inflation - Merchant - Philanthropist - Stock Exchanges - Tycoon
Historical Events
Results 1 - 9 of 9
1792-05-17 - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1865-01-04 - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
1889-07-08 - Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1920-09-16 - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1926-02-01 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1970-05-08 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1982-02-28 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1987-11-03 - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1993-05-13 - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 3 of 3
1834-11-21 - Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)
1933-01-30 - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz (Wall Street Week)
1947-03-27 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 2 of 2
1902-12-04 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1916-07-03 - Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies
