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The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst intra-day point loss, dropping nearly 1,000 points before partially recovering. [24] August 2011 stock markets fall: 1 Aug 2011 USA: S&P 500 entered a short-lived bear market between 2 May 2011 (intraday high: 1,370.58) and 4 October 2011 (intraday low: 1,074.77), a decline of 21.58%. The ...
State troopers opened non-stop fire on prisoners and hostages after a four-day prison uprising, killing 29 of the former and 10 of the latter; one prison guard had also died at the beginning of the riot. It is considered the deadliest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War. 43 1987 PSA Flight 1771: Aircraft hijacking
View history; General What links here ... 1929-10-30 22.99 +2.56 ... The two tables below show the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close ...
Dubbed "the worst year to be alive" by Harvard historian Michael McCormick, the year 536 saw an inexplicable, dense fog that shrouded much of Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in darkness ...
November 10 1941 1,200 1941 Jabal Razih earthquake: Yemen January 11 1942 61,000 1942 West Bengal cyclone: India Tropical cyclone October 14 – 18 1943 2,824-5,000 1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake: Turkey Earthquake November 27 1944 10,000 1944 San Juan earthquake: Argentina January 15 1945 4,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake: Pakistan November 28 ...
More than one historian consulted by Bloom named this the worst year in U.S. history. It included the Civil War's Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, which took ...
However, if the 10 best days are eliminated, that $10,000 investment would have been worth just $33,523 by July 2024. In that scenario, the money compounded at 6.2% annually.