1...that Graham Berry (1822–1904), 11th Premier of Victoria, broke the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class? 2...that in the National Lacrosse League of North America, the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley? 3...that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich? 4...that Quantum praedecessores was a papal bull issued on 1 December 1145 by Pope Eugenius III, calling for a Second Crusade? 5...that the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters? 

On this date in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was organized by a group of brokers meeting at a coffee house. They made their first transactions under a tree on New York City's Wall Street. The area has become the hub of the US financial world, housing the NYSE and AMEX, as well as the offices of many of the country's most powerful brokerage firms.

"Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again" -- Will Rogers

Nasdaq: the world's first electronic stock market; Nasdaq has surpassed the NYSE in annual share volume, because of its popularity among investors in high-tech companies.

Newsweek: apologizes for Koran desecration story, which sparked Afghanistan violence (story) myelodysplastic syndrome: breakthrough drug discovered for common blood cancer (story) Dave Chappelle: AWOL star of smash hit on Comedy Central says he's just stressed (story)

Kentucky Derby: raced for first time, at Churchill Downs; won by Aristides (1875) segregation: outlawed by US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Watergate: Senate committee began televised hearings (1973)

Ayatollah Khomeini: Iranian ruler (1900-1989) Sugar Ray Leonard: boxer (49) Enya: Irish singer (44)