1994 Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1993 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1992 Target date for Europe's single market
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market
1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service
1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
1978 European market and China signs trade agreement
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated
1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership
1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms
1973 Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1972 Norway votes to join common market
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1968 France refuses U.K. entry into common market
1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART
1966 -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
1964 Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
1962 Greece enters European Common Market
1962 U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day
1961 England applies for membership in European Common Market
1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
1958 Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
1956 Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer, Farmer's Market
1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
1952 Woolworth's at Powell and Market (SF) opens
1944 Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St
1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1923 Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher, TV's Nielsen's Ratings
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St. SF
1906 Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher
1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens
1897 Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres
1885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens
1875 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated
1873 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market
1864 Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights VA
1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
1859 Grading started for Market Street RR
1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1842 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market
1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
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