STOCK EXCHANGE DAY
On this day in 1792, twenty-four brokers sat down to fix rates for commissions on stocks and bonds. From that agreement came what has been known since as the New York Stock Exchange or Wall Street. 

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is located in the financial district, an area in lower Manhattan, on a street named after a defensive wall built around 1650. Wall Street became interchangeable with the Stock Exchange. The original brokers’ meeting place was quite different from today’s noisy, crowded, high-energy floor. In bad weather, they met at a coffee house and when the day was sunny, the brokers sat under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to conduct their business. 

There are now over 51 million individual investors and 10,000 institutional investors who are represented on the floor of the NYSE by 480 member-trader firms. The NYSE is respected throughout the world and attracts investors from many countries. 
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

 1917: Der russische Revolutionär Leo Trotzki kehrt aus dem Exil, das der zuletzt in den USA verbracht hat, nach Rußland zurück.
 

1939 - The Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, NY was the scene of a memorable dual-network radio broadcast of Glenn Miller and his orchestra. Both NBC and Mutual carried the event, which was attended by 1,800 people in the casino ballroom. 

1939 - WNBT-TV in New York broadcast the first fashion show to be seen on TV. The show was broadcast from the Ritz-Carleton Hotel in Manhattan. 
1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball

On this day in 1973 the first live courtroom testimony was broadcast from the joint Congressional Watergate Committee hearings to millions of TV viewers. Public fascination turned to disgust, eventually leading to the resignation of President Richard M Nixon fifteen months later. The Watergate courtroom is seen. 
1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green homerun during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger homerun
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Life"
1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle CO

 1974: Bayern München gewinnt mit 4:0 das Wiederholungsspiel um den Europapokal der Landesmeister gegen Atletico Madrid.
1974 Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet

1975 - Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album was released andcertified a platinum record on the very same day. It was the first album to be certified a million seller (in this case, a two-million seller) on the first day of release. 

1975, Alan Longmuir announced he was leaving The Bay City Rollers. 
 

1975, Earth, Wind & Fire started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with the soundtrack to 'That's The Way Of The World.'
 

1975, Elton John was awarded a Platinum Record for sales of a million copies of the LP Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy, the first album ever to be certified Platinum on the day of its release. 
1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time

1980, Boney M scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Magic Of Boney M.'
 

1980, this years Eurovision song contest winner Johnny Logan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘What’s Another Year.’
1980 (Vivekananda Selva) Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hours
1980 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
1980 Major race riot in Miami FL - 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live

1980, drummer Peter Criss left Kiss and was replaced by Eric Carr.

1986, Spitting Image started a three week run at No.1 on the UK chart with 'The Chicken Song.' 
 

1986, Whitney Houston started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Greatest Love Of All', the singers third US No.1, a No.8 hit in the UK.
1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8

1989, the first night of a 12 date UK tour for R.E.M. starting at Leicester De Montfort Hall. (Promoting the new single 'Orange Crush').

 1995: In einer feierlichen Zeremonie wird Frankreichs neuer Präsident Jacques Chirac in sein Amt eingeführt.
 

1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wicket, Leicestershire vs Worcestershire
1996, Kevin Gilbert, multi instrumentalist and songwriter, died of accidental asphyxiation. Member of Giraffe, woked with Sheryl Crow, co-wrote 1994 UK No.4 hit ‘All I Want To Do.’ 

Cuba : Agrarian Reform/Peasant Day
Norway : Independence Day/Constitution Day (1814)
US : Armed Forces Day - - - - - ( Saturday )