Historical Events
- 1792-05-17 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
- 1865-01-04 New York Stock Exchange opens its 1st permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad St, near Wall Street in New York City
- 1889-07-08 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
- 1903-12-15 NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony [Marcioni] granted patent for a mound for making ice cream cones
Wall Street Bombing
1920-09-16 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
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- 1926-02-01 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
- 1929-10-29 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"
- 1970-05-08 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
- 1982-02-28 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
- 1987-11-03 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
- 1993-05-13 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
- 2008-09-21 Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
- 2011-09-17 Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
Film Release
2013-12-25 "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, is released
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jonah Hill
- 2015-11-10 Fourth Republican presidential candidates debate, sponsored by "The Wall Street Journal", held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 2018-02-05 A share market sell off starts on Wall Street with Dow Jones sinking 4.6%, spreads around the globe
- 2021-01-28 Share trading app Robinhood, favored by Reddit, suspends trading of Gamestop amid huge surge in share price of the previously short listed stock by Wall Street
Famous Birthdays
Hetty Green
1834-11-21 Henrietta "Hetty" Green, American businesswoman and financier whose wealth and miserliness saw her known as the "Witch of Wall Street", born in New Bedford, Massachusetts (d. 1916)
Hetty Green
John Gutfreund
1929-09-14 John Gutfreund, American investment banker, CEO of Salomon Brothers (King of Wall Street), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)
John Gutfreund
- 1933-01-30 Louis Rukeyser, American financial journalist (Wall Street Week), born in New York (d. 2006)
- 1947-03-27 Walt Mossberg, American journalist, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal, born in Warwick, Rhode Island
Leonardo DiCaprio
1974-11-11 Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor (The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles, California
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jonah Hill
1983-12-20 Jonah Hill, American actor (Superbad, Moneyball, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles, California
Jonah Hill
Famous Deaths
- 1902-12-04 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones and 1st editor of Wall St Journal), dies at 51
Hetty Green
1916-07-03 Henrietta "Hetty" Green, American businesswoman and financier whose wealth and miserliness saw her known as the "Witch of Wall Street", dies of a stroke at 81
Hetty Green
John Gutfreund
2016-03-09 John Gutfreund, American investment banker, CEO of Salomon Brothers (King of Wall Street), dies at 86
John Gutfreund