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1995 Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic, dies at 75

1993 Frank J Del Giudice, U.S. industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77

1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

1987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)

1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

1986 Raymond Loewy, U.S. industrial designer, dies at 92

1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time

1985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time

1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time

1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris

1971 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies at 89

1969 John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89

1967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies

1951 Industrial estate at Harlow New Town U.K. opens

1940 Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire

1938 Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector

1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms

1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down

1932 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22

1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered

1931 Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire, Caparo

1927 Garfield Weston, English industrial/billionaire, Twinings Tea

1926 Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire, Tetra Pak

1924 Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire, GEC

1921 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert

1920 Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic

1919 Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies

1917 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert

1913 Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial/resistance fighter

1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School

1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77

1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks

1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)

1893 Raymond Loewy, U.S. industrial designer

1886 Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations, CIO

1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property

1840 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50



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