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This Day In Market History: DARPA Is Formed To Fight The Cold War
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 7:40am | 395Read More...Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense founded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 was at 41.73 and the Dow Jones...
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This Day In Market History: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 11:03am | 394Read More...Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On this day 26 years ago, the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War rivals for decades, officially dissolved. Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 closed the previous week at...
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Helmut Kohl, Accidental Architect Of The Modern World, Is Dead At 87
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 1:34pm | 665Read More...(Author Mark Fritz was East Berlin correspondent for the Associated Press from 1990–1993; as an editor on the Foreign Desk, he filed the bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall.) History handed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl an epic opening, and he hurled his hulking frame right through...
