1929: "Black Tuesday" in Wall Street. Stock prices crash, and the Depression kicks in for the next ten years.


In 1986, at 11:15a.m., Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opened the final stretch of the M25 London orbital motorway. Its first traffic-jam developed by 5:15p.m. that day!!


W.A. Mozart forgot to write an overture to new opera Don Giovanni and had to 'run one up' (with wife Constanza plying him with punch!) in the hours before its first performance in 1787.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind