Good morning people of Phoenix! It’s time once again for an
edition of Throwback Thursday.
On this day in:
• 1929: The Stock Market Crash on Black Tuesday on the New
York Stock Exchange. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of
investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not
handle the tremendous volume of trading. Partly due to the crash America and
the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great
Depression of the 1930's. Some of the closing prices from that day are: US
Steel 175, Westinghouse Electric 125, American Telephone 220, American Can 119.
• 1948: A poison cloud of deadly smog settles on Donora
Pennsylvania causing the deaths of 19 and hospitalization of 50, the poison in
the cloud was caused by a local company which was smelting Zinc causing it to
combine with the smog.
• 1964: The Star of India (563.35 carat (112.67 g) star
sapphire) and the Eagle Diamond (16.25 carat discovered in Eagle Wisconsin) are
stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Star
of India is later recovered but the Eagle Diamond is never found.
• 1982: Lindy Chamberlain found guilty of the murder of her
9-week old daughter after a jury dismissed her claim that a dingo took the
baby.
• 1983: The largest mass demonstration in Dutch history when
500,000 people demonstrate against the deployment of cruise missiles on
Netherland soil.
• 1986: The final stretch of the M25 motorway is opened by
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The M25 circles Greater London from
Dartford Crossing A282 to Dartford Crossing A282 (Which provides the link
across the River Thames).
• 1998: Hurricane Mitch strikes Honduras, although by the
time it struck Honduras it had decreased significantly from a Category 5
hurricane, it is one of the deadliest hurricanes on record due to its slow
speed across the country and severe rainfalls. Because of the rainfall (with
reports of 3 to 6ft of rain) flooding and landslides never seen before make it
the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history when over 11,000 people are
killed in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Have a fangtastic day! Only one more day till Friday!
<3 Brock V"""V
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