Wall Street Events

1920 Sep 16 Wall Street Bombing
One employee of J. P. Morgan & Co., William Joyce, of the securities department, was killed yesterday by the explosion in Wall Street between the Morgan and Co. building and the United St...
1929 Oct 29 1929 Stock Market Crash - Black Tuesday
Monetary Causes of the 1920s Stock Market Bubble and its Popping. Ignoring the shift of wealth that had occurred during World War I, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill mist...
1987 Oct 19 1987 Stock Market Crash
With the recent passing of the 21st anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash (Monday, October 19, 1987) and all the turmoil in the markets over the past few months, I thought I’d share ...
2010 May 6 Flash Crash
The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash also referred to as The Crash of 2:45, the 2010 Flash Crash or just simply, the Flash Crash, was a stock market crash on May 6, 2010 involving U.S. corporate ...
2010 Jul 21 The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Is Signed Into Law
At 5:08 a.m. Friday morning, just before dawn on Capitol Hill and minutes before lawmakers were expected to make a historic agreement on new financial regulations, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D....
2011 Sep 17 Approximately 1,000 People Attend First 'Occupy Wall Street' Event'
On Saturday, about 1,000 showed up to protest that 40 per cent of the wealth in the U.S. is held by one per cent of the people, and a record one in seven Americans live in poverty, the hi...
2011 Oct 2 700 Anti-Wall Street Protesters Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan's Financial District even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a ...