Today’s history: 230 years ago, 24 people started the New York Stock Exchange, today is the world’s largest stock exchange

The world’s largest stock exchange ‘The New York Stock Exchange’ ie NYSE was started on this day. It was started by just 24 people. Today more than 2 thousand companies are registered in this stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. Today, more than 9 million stocks and securities are traded on the NYSE every day. NYSE is also known as ‘The Big Board’.

All the people who started it used to do the business of trading bonds and securities in New York. In March 1792, these people met in a hotel in New York. Its purpose was to make the business more secure and better.

On this day in 1792, these 24 merchants signed an agreement, which was named Buttonwood Agreement. In this agreement there were rules and regulations related to business. In fact, this agreement was signed in a garden under a Buttonwood tree, that is why it was named Buttonwood Agreement. With this the New York Stock Exchange was started.

NYSE started business with 2 bank bonds and 3 government bonds. In 1967 the first woman named Muriel Seibert traded on the NYSE. In 2007, the NYSE and the European stock exchange Euronext merged. The very next year, the NYSE acquired the US Stock Exchange.

1978: Charlie Chaplin’s stolen coffin is discovered

On this day in 1978, the stolen coffin of Charlie Chaplin was discovered 11 weeks later.

Famous actor Charlie Chaplin died on 25 December 1977. His body was buried near a lake in Geneva, but three months after his burial, his dead body was stolen from the tomb. After stealing the body, the thieves demanded an amount of 4 million pounds from Charlie’s wife in exchange for returning the dead body.

Five weeks later, police arrested two Bulgarians for stealing Charlie’s dead body. Their names were Romana Vardas and Gancho Gainev. Finally, on May 17, 1978, both of them handed over his dead body to the police.

During interrogation, both the thieves told that they were going through financial crisis, so they stole Charlie’s dead body. Both wanted to start a new business with the money received in return. Later, Charlie’s dead body was buried in the Village of Noville, near Switzerland. This time Charlie’s body was buried under a sturdy slab of concrete, so that his dead body could not be stolen again.

1939: Live telecast of the first sports event

On this day in 1939, NBC of America telecasted a match live for the first time on TV.

Today every small and big sports event of the world is telecasted live. It started on this day in 1939. There was a baseball match between Columbia and Princeton at Baker Field, California.

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) telecasted the match live on more than 400 televisions. Only one camera was used for the entire telecast. This was done as an experiment. With this, it became the first sports event that people watched live on TV sitting at home.

Five months after its success, another similar match was telecasted from Brooklyn. This experiment garnered a lot of applause and found a lot of space in the newspapers of the next day. After this, live telecast of almost every major sports event started. As the use of TV increased, so did live telecast.

Today is World Hypertension Day

Today is celebrated all over the world as World Hypertension Day, ie World Hypertension Day, ie High Blood Pressure Day. The purpose of celebrating this day is to spread awareness about high blood pressure and encourage people to control it.

High blood pressure is a major cause of death worldwide. The normal blood pressure of the body should be 80/120. When it reaches 135/185, it is called hypertension. Most of the people are not aware that they are suffering from this disease and they do not pay any attention to it. Because of this, gradually the heart and blood vessels become weak. That’s why this disease is also called silent killer.

For what other reasons is May 17 remembered in history?

2010: Indian boxers won all 6 gold medals of Commonwealth Boxing Championship. India also won the team championship with the highest score of 36.

2004: Massachusetts became the first US state to recognize same-sex marriage.

1975: Japanese climber Junko Taibei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest.

1918: Russi Modi, India’s famous industrialist and top member of the Tata group, was born.

1865: Celebration of World Communication Day started.

1749: Edward Jenner, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, was born.