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2002 Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38

1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street

1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies

1990 Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood

1990 Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies

1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

1989 Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall

1988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City

1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

1987 Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies

1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa

1980 Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1

1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles

1973 Marcus Wall, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes

1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's

1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street

1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world

1967 Donne Wall, born in Potosi, Missouri, pitcher for the Houston Astros

1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem

1965 Charlie Sheen, New York City, actor, Wall St, Platoon

1965 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45

1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners

1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall

1962 Patrick Cassidy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Fever Pitch, Off the Wall

1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed

1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins

1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

1960 James Spader, born in New York City, actor, Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin

1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284

1958 Med Lucart, rock musician, Wall of Voodoo

1955 Stan Ridway, rocker, Wall Of Voodoo

1952 Udo Dirkshneider, heavy metal rocker, Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo

1949 Larry Wall, Canadian Author

1946 Oliver Stone, born in New York City, director, Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon

1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1946 David Jon Gilmour, rock guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall

1946 Roger Keith, Syd, Barrett, lead guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in Wall

1945 Richard William Wright, rock guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall

1945 Don Reid, Virginia, country singer, Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall

1945 Nicholas Berkeley Mason, drummer, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall

1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere

1944 Michael Douglas, born in New Jersey, actor, Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile

1943 George Roger Waters, keyboardist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall

1940 Martin Sheen, born in New York, actor, Subject Was Roses, Wall St

1939 [Harvey] Phil Spector, record producer, Wall of Sound

1938 Lew DeWitt, born in Virginia, country singer, Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall

1938 Lew De Witt, singer, Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall

1933 Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week

1930 Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer, Moon River, Andy Williams Show

1926 Dick Williams, born in Wall Lake, Iowa, choral director, Andy Williams Show

1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch

1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30

1919 Shirley Jackson, U.S., writer, Road Through the Wall

1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1916 Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies

1914 Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall

1904 Tim Wall, cricketer, 18 Tests for Australia 1928-34

1890 Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma

1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing

1885 Franz T Csokor, Austrian author, Writings on the Wall

1874 Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken

1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St

1869 Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold

1851 Charles H Dow, co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St. Journal

1834 Henrietta, Hetty, Green, financier, Witch of Wall Street

1821 John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54

1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1766 John Wall Calcott, composer

1375 Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands

122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall

76 Hadrian, Roman Emperor, builder of Hadrian's Wall

70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem

70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem



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