@divegeester saidBlack Tuesday 1929 shares dropped about 15%.
On this day in 1929...
Black Tuesday; the most catastrophic day in stock market history,
October 19, 1987 the Dow dropped 22%.
However after the 1929 crash recovery took a whopping 15-25 years!
@ponderable saidDid you mean: 35 years ago a woman pulled Warhol's wig from his head? 😉
35 years ago a woman pulled Wargol's wig from his head.
-VR
@very-rusty saidHave you ever suffered the same fate?
Did you mean: 35 years ago a woman pulled Warhol's wig from his head? 😉
-VR
On this day in 1974, "Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire; regaining his world heavyweight title.
@very-rusty saidExcept for pitchers who were grandfathered in.
On this day:
1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
This day in 1993...
Was the last day before the Treaty of Maastricht came into force at midnight on the 31st October.
The Treaty, which led independent nation states into a deeper political integration with a view to creating a single currency and of course the founding of the European Union, was entered into by the Conservative government led by PM John Major on behalf of the entire UK population without formal consultation and despite an assertion from a constitutional historian and expert that a public referendum was required.
The result of the referendum in France was a 50.8% vote for signing the treaty. Interestingly no one seemed to care that it was a narrow margin, much narrower than the UK 2016 referendum for example, although the 'petite oui', as the result became known led the then French President Jacques Delors to comment that "Europe began as an elitist project in which it was believed that all that was required was to convince the decision-makers. That phase of benign despotism is over.”
The UK’s signing of the Treaty of Maastricht, without consultation of the people, was regarded by many UK citizens and politicians as a betrayal of trust and an abdication of political sovereignty. The move triggered the resignation from the Conservative Party of Nigel Farage who went on establish the pro-independence political parties of UKIP and more recently the Brexit Party in January 2019 which won a comprehensive victory in the 2019 MEP elections returning 29 MEPs with 40% of the UK vote and are the largest independent group in the European Parliament.
The fight to regain UK political independence from the EU continues.
@divegeester saidThe "non" vote in France was an interesting "unholy alliance"
This day in 1993...Was the last day before the Treaty of Maastricht came into force at midnight on the 31st October.
The result of the referendum in France was a 50.8% vote for signing the treaty.
between the far-right and the far-left. Moderates voted for the
Treaty. We can assume most non-voters were moderates too.
But as you say - a very close vote. Coser than UK's Brexit vote.
8 years ago
31st October
Earth's population of reaches 7 billion.
This day is now recognized by the United Nations
as the Day of Seven Billion. (Very unoriginal!)
I remember when annual growth rate was 2%
and the world "would not sustain 5 billion"!
Oh well - as societies become more prosperous their growth rates
go down (negative even). Will we meet the projected 12 billion peak?
@wolfgang59 said9 billion in less than 6 years time.
8 years ago
31st October
Earth's population of reaches 7 billion.
This day is now recognized by the United Nations
as the Day of Seven Billion. (Very unoriginal!)
I remember when annual growth rate was 2%
and the world "would not sustain 5 billion"!
Oh well - as societies become more prosperous their growth rates
go down (negative even). Will we meet the projected 12 billion peak?
Don't worry though you'll be fine behind that fire-wall immigration policy you have there.
@divegeester saidAnnual population growth (latest figures)
9 billion in less than 6 years time.
Don't worry though you'll be fine behind that fire-wall immigration policy you have there.
NZ 1.9%
UK 0.6%
World 1.1%
@wolfgang59 saidThree fifths of fuk all times 1.9 is still not enough for a dance around maypole team.
Annual population growth (latest figures)
NZ 1.9%
UK 0.6%
World 1.1%
Do you have maypoles in NZ, and if so do they dance around it the opposite way?