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2013 Event - In Japan, optimism for economic revival sparked Bank of Japan's stimulus plan, impacts Japan's stock market index; following its release, the Nikkei 225 hits its highest level in nearly five years

2013 Event - The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, reveals that the EU is planning regulatory action to facilitate consolidation of the telecommunications market across national borders

2012 Event - The New York Stock Exchange is reopened after a two-day closure due to Hurricane Sandy; this was the market's first weather-related two-day closure since the late 19th century

2012 Event - The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization

2011 Event - Health authorities begin slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with H5N1 is found at a poultry market in Hong Kong

2011 Event - Tunisia's youth protest for several days over political grievances and social problems including the job market and purchase power

2010 Event - The Leaf, one of the first mass market electric cars is launched by Nissan

2010 Event - Sony takes its original cassette Walkman off the market

2010 Event - The U.S. Senate investigates Goldman Sachs, finding that they made billions of dollars at the expense of clients during the housing market collapse

2010 Event - A suicide bomber kills 20 people at a market in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province

2009 Event - Nearly 100 people are killed by a runaway truck at a market in Kogi State, Nigeria

1994 Death - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88

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

1993 Death - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80

1992 Event - Target date for Europe's single market

1991 Event - Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)

1990 Event - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market

1989 Event - Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market

1989 Event - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market

1987 Event - Turkey asks to join European market

1986 Event - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market

1982 Event - Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service

1979 Event - IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market

1979 Event - European Market accepts Greece as member

1978 Event - European market and China signs trade agreement

1978 Event - Velcro was 1st put on the market

1978 Event - Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated

1977 Event - Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee

1975 Event - British voters decide to remain in Common Market

1975 Event - British population agrees to European Common Market membership

1975 Event - Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market

1974 Event - 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121

1974 Event - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens

1973 Event - CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms

1973 Event - Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th - 9th members of Common Market

1972 Event - Danish population votes for European Common Market membership

1972 Event - Norway rejects membership in European Common Market

1972 Event - Norway votes to join common market

1972 Event - British Parliament votes to join European Common Market

1968 Event - France refuses U.K. entry into common market

1967 Event - Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)

1967 Event - Norway requests European Common Market membership

1967 Event - Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for Common Market membership

1966 Event - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART

1966 Event - -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), New Market, Alabama (state record)

1964 Event - Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market

1964 Event - Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market

1962 Event - Greece enters European Common Market

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

1961 Event - England applies for membership in European Common Market

1959 Event - Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market

1958 Event - European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation

1957 Event - New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

1957 Event - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market

1956 Birthday - Denise Jannah, Zeefuik, Suriname jazz singer, Farmer's Market

1955 Event - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1952 Event - Woolworth's at Powell and Market (SF) opens

1944 Event - Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market

1944 Event - M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands

1939 Event - Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal

1935 Event - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches

1931 Birthday - Boris Yeltsin, born in Russia, first President of the Russian Federation, endorsed free market economies

1929 Event - Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression

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

1923 Birthday - Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher, TV's Nielsen's Ratings

1916 Event - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time

1916 Event - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market

1907 Event - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle

1906 Event - "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St. SF

1906 Birthday - Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher

1905 Event - Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated

1898 Event - San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens

1897 Event - Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres

1885 Death - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42

1875 Event - Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens

1875 Event - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated

1873 Event - Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar

1873 Event - 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

1869 Event - Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market

1864 Event - Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights VA

1864 Event - Battle of New Market, Virginia

1863 Event - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

1860 Event - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco

1859 Event - Grading started for Market Street RR

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

1842 Birthday - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market

1283 Event - Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market













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