George Henry Evans publishes the first issue of the Working Man?s Advocate, ?edited by a Mechanic? for the ?useful and industrious classes? in New York City.
Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs ? 1986
Wall street crashes ? "Black Tuesday" ? throwing the world's economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent - 1929
The Gateway Arch, a 630 ft high parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri, is completed after two and one-half years.