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2011 Event - New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest

2011 Event - Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement

2011 Event - Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic

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

1993 Event - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street

1992 Death - Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/Governor KMA Breda, dies

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

1990 Death - Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies

1990 Event - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

1989 Event - Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall

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

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

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

1982 Event - FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

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

1980 Event - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1

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

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

1978 Birthday - Brooke Burns, born in Dallas, Texas, model, actress, appeared on 'Baywatch', 'Baywatch Hawaii' television shows, hosted 'Hole in the Wall' television game show

1973 Birthday - Marcus Wall, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes

1973 Event - 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 Event - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street

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

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

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

1967 Death - Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida

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

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

1963 Event - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners

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

1962 Event - East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall

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

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

1961 Event - Construction on Berlin Wall completed

1961 Event - Building of Berlin Wall begins

1961 Event - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

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

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

1958 Birthday - Med Lucart, rock musician, Wall of Voodoo

1955 Birthday - Stan Ridway, rocker, Wall Of Voodoo

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

1951 Birthday - Bob Geldof, born in Dublin, Ireland, rocker, member of The Boomtown Rats, singer, songwriter, actor, played Pink in "The Wall"

1950 Birthday - Gary Green, born in Stroud Green, England, guitarist for Gentle Giant rock band, worked with Billy Sherwood on album, 'Back Against The Wall', 2005

1949 Birthday - Larry Wall, Canadian Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1944 Event - Allies bomb sea wall at Veere

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

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

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

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

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

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

1933 Birthday - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week

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

1928 Birthday - Sol LeWitt, born in Connecticut, artist, modern art pioneer, famous for wall drawings and "structures"

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

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

1920 Event - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30

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

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

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

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

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

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

1889 Event - Wall Street Journal begins publishing

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

1875 Birthday - Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

1821 Death - John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54

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

1766 Birthday - John Wall Calcott, composer

1375 Event - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands

122 Event - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall

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

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

70 Event - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem













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