Tuesday, October 19, 2004

 

Spotlight: Topic of the Day: Black Monday, the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value, occurred on this date in 1987. It marked the largest ever percentage drop in a single day.

Quote: "I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years." -- Warren Buffett

Word of the day: illuminati -- people claiming to be unusually enlightened with regard to a subject; Illuminati -- a rationalistic German society founded in the 18th century. (© )

Today's News:

• Poland and Germany -- lawmakers fail to resolve restitution row (story)
• feral flock -- parakeets add chartreuse to gray Seattle sky (story)
• Jerry Rice -- prolific receiver is traded from Raiders to Seahawks (story)

Today's History:

• battles -- French recapture Bordeaux, ending the Hundred Years War (1453); Cornwallis surrendered to Washington and Rochambeau in the Battle of Yorktown, ending the American Revolution (1781)
• WAVES -- African-American women were accepted into the Navy unit (1944)
• Maurice "Rocket" Richard -- became the first member of the NHL to score 500 goals (1957)

Today's Birthdays:

• essays -- English essayist, critic, journalist and poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
• journalism-- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Anderson turns 82
• novels -- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold author John Le Carré turns 73