3afan2K3
10-29-2003, 07:49 PM
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Only 63 days until the Year 2004
Random Fact of the Day
The air is so polluted in Cubato, Brazil, no birds or insects remain, most trees are blackened stumps, and its mayor reportedly refuses to live there
Sci-Fi fact of the Day
Feared that the mainstream audience would be put off by Spock's "Satanic-looking ears", NBC Executives air-brushed out the pointy-ears and sloping eyebrows on a photo in a Star Trek Press Release sent to the Media to promote the TV Series
http://www.scififactoftheday.com/trek/airbrush.jpg
Word of the Day
Word of the Day
tawdry
Pronunciation: /TAW-dree/
adj : cheap and showy; garish
"Take off those tawdry pearls and put on the real thing."
Quote of the Day
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
- Thomas Edison
Entertainent Fact of the Day
In the film industry, a "hot set" is a set that is ready for use and is not to be disturbed.
This Day in History
STOCK MARKET CRASHES:
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. 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. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression.
During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929, a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Among the other causes of the eventual market collapse were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a weak agriculture, and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated.
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24--Black Thursday--a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Investment companies and leading bankers attempted to stabilize the market by buying up great blocks of stock, producing a moderate rally on Friday. On Monday, however, the storm broke anew, and the market went into free fall. Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, in which stock prices collapsed completely.
After October 29, 1929, stock prices had nowhere to go but up, so there was considerable recovery during succeeding weeks. Overall, however, prices continued to drop as the United States slumped into the Great Depression, and by 1932 stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. It would take World War II, and the massive level of armaments production taken on by the United States, to finally bring the country out of the Depression after a decade of suffering.
Also in This Day in History
1945
The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale - at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month.
Birthdays Today in History
1740
James Boswell
author
1815
Daniel [Decatur] Emmett
composer
1891
Fanny Brice [Fannie Borach]
comedienne, actress
1891
Douglas Montgomery
actor
1899
Akim Tamiroff
actor
1921
Bill Mauldin
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
1922
Neal Hefti
composer
1925
Zoot [John Haley] Sims
musician
1926
Jon Vickers
singer
1932
Dick Garmaker
basketball
1937
Sonny Osborne
musician, singer
1938
Ralph Bakshi
writer, director, animator
1939
Pete [Peter Gerard] Richert
baseball
1940
Connie Mack III
U.S. Senator
1941
Jody Miller
Grammy Award-winning singer
1941
Andy Russell
football
1944
Denny Laine [Brian Hines]
musician, singer
1945
Melba Moore
singer
1946
Peter Green
musician
1947
Richard Dreyfuss
Academy Award-winning actor
1948
Kate Jackson
actress
1951
Dirk Kempthorne
Governor of Idaho
1950
Ed Dyck
hockey
1953
Denis Potvin
hockey
1955
Kevin Dubrow
singer
1955
John [Thomas] Smith
football
1959
Jesse [Lee] Barfield
baseball
1960
Michael Carter
football
1960
Finola Hughes
actress
1961
Randy [Steven Randall] Jackson
singer
1965
Joely Fisher
actress
1971
Winona [Laura] Ryder [Horowitz]
actress
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Only 63 days until the Year 2004
Random Fact of the Day
The air is so polluted in Cubato, Brazil, no birds or insects remain, most trees are blackened stumps, and its mayor reportedly refuses to live there
Sci-Fi fact of the Day
Feared that the mainstream audience would be put off by Spock's "Satanic-looking ears", NBC Executives air-brushed out the pointy-ears and sloping eyebrows on a photo in a Star Trek Press Release sent to the Media to promote the TV Series
http://www.scififactoftheday.com/trek/airbrush.jpg
Word of the Day
Word of the Day
tawdry
Pronunciation: /TAW-dree/
adj : cheap and showy; garish
"Take off those tawdry pearls and put on the real thing."
Quote of the Day
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
- Thomas Edison
Entertainent Fact of the Day
In the film industry, a "hot set" is a set that is ready for use and is not to be disturbed.
This Day in History
STOCK MARKET CRASHES:
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. 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. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression.
During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929, a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Among the other causes of the eventual market collapse were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a weak agriculture, and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated.
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24--Black Thursday--a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Investment companies and leading bankers attempted to stabilize the market by buying up great blocks of stock, producing a moderate rally on Friday. On Monday, however, the storm broke anew, and the market went into free fall. Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, in which stock prices collapsed completely.
After October 29, 1929, stock prices had nowhere to go but up, so there was considerable recovery during succeeding weeks. Overall, however, prices continued to drop as the United States slumped into the Great Depression, and by 1932 stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. It would take World War II, and the massive level of armaments production taken on by the United States, to finally bring the country out of the Depression after a decade of suffering.
Also in This Day in History
1945
The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale - at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month.
Birthdays Today in History
1740
James Boswell
author
1815
Daniel [Decatur] Emmett
composer
1891
Fanny Brice [Fannie Borach]
comedienne, actress
1891
Douglas Montgomery
actor
1899
Akim Tamiroff
actor
1921
Bill Mauldin
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
1922
Neal Hefti
composer
1925
Zoot [John Haley] Sims
musician
1926
Jon Vickers
singer
1932
Dick Garmaker
basketball
1937
Sonny Osborne
musician, singer
1938
Ralph Bakshi
writer, director, animator
1939
Pete [Peter Gerard] Richert
baseball
1940
Connie Mack III
U.S. Senator
1941
Jody Miller
Grammy Award-winning singer
1941
Andy Russell
football
1944
Denny Laine [Brian Hines]
musician, singer
1945
Melba Moore
singer
1946
Peter Green
musician
1947
Richard Dreyfuss
Academy Award-winning actor
1948
Kate Jackson
actress
1951
Dirk Kempthorne
Governor of Idaho
1950
Ed Dyck
hockey
1953
Denis Potvin
hockey
1955
Kevin Dubrow
singer
1955
John [Thomas] Smith
football
1959
Jesse [Lee] Barfield
baseball
1960
Michael Carter
football
1960
Finola Hughes
actress
1961
Randy [Steven Randall] Jackson
singer
1965
Joely Fisher
actress
1971
Winona [Laura] Ryder [Horowitz]
actress
<small>[ October 30, 2003, 07:20 AM: Message edited by: 3afan2K3 ]</small>