1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1988 Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
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 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
1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1983 Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
1981 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1980 Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors
1980 Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
1977 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1972 Netherlands and China PR exchange ambassadors
1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes
1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
1965 Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1952 Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1949 Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman, born in London, England, actor, Fair Exchange
1944 James Buckley, CEO, Baltic Exchange
1943 Lynn Loring, born in New York City, actress, Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI
1943 A H Harper, CEO, Baltic Exchange
1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1940 U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1939 Judy Carne, born in Northhampton, England, comedienne, Laugh-in, Fair Exchange
1937 Bo Brundin, born in Stockholm, Sweden, actress, Rhinemann Exchange
1934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
1929 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch
1929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security and Exchange Commission
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1924 Sweden and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats
1923 China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats
1922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in New York City
1921 Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange
1915 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500
1912 Audrey Christie, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Dorothy-Fair Exchange
1910 1st British labour exchange opens
1909 William Batten, CEO, New York Stock Exchange 1976-84
1905 Eddie Foy, Jr., New Rochelle, New York, actor, Eddie-Fair Exchange
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
1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
1878 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
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 California Stock Exchange Board organized
1867 San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens
1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect, Stock exchange Amsterdam
1853 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1850 California Exchange opens
1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1823 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1818 HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect, New Stock exchange Antwerp
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
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