1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1993 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1992 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
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 Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
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
1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
1979 J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1971 Eric Stock, soccer player, NEC
1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
1963 Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1962 U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day
1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets
1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1956 Matt Aitken, rocker, Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1951 Mike Stock, rocker, Stock, Aitken and Waterman-Road Block
1949 Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
1947 Pete Waterman, rocker, Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block
1939 David Frederick Stock, composer
1934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78
1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch
1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City
1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants
1926 Carleton Carpenter, born in Bennington, Vermont, actor, Up Periscope, Summer Stock
1921 Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange
1920 Eddie Bracken, born in Astoria, New York City, actor, Summer Stock, Young and Willing
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1909 William Batten, CEO, New York Stock Exchange 1976-84
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
1884 Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
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 Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orch
1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized
1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect, Stock exchange Amsterdam
1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1818 HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect, New Stock exchange Antwerp
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1775 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
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