Three Decades Of Growth And Innovation

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The Nasdaq is home to many of the biggest winning stocks in the past 30 years, the fuel behind the indexs 1,547% march. Here are some
of the key market, economic and political events during this extraordinary era of growth and innovation.
2/3/14
Janet Yellen
becomes Fed chief
2/19/14
Facebook says it will
buy WhatsApp for
$19 billion

2/22/14
Ukraine President
Viktor Yanukovych
flees country
after months of
protests

3/16/14
Crimea
votes to secede
fromUkraine,
soon joins Russia

3/24/14
Michael Lewis
Flash Boys book
on high frequency
trading released,
sparks regulatory
probes

3/26/14
King Digital Media
falls in debut after
weak pricing. IPO
interest fades

4/23/14
Apple reports
stronger EPS, sales
growth, hikes stock
buyback, plans
7-for-1 split
4/9/84
Investors Daily
begins publishing
4/23/84
Retrovirus, named
HIV in 1986,
identified as likely
AIDS cause
5/8/84
Soviet Union
announces boycott
of Los Angeles
Summer Olympics
5/9/84
Continental Illinois
hit by deposit run
9/20/84: Hezbollah
suicide bomber
attacks U.S.
Embassy annex in
Lebanon; 27 killed
12/3/84
Union Carbide
Bhopal disaster,
thousands die
12/14/84
U.S. judge lets
Baby Bells enter
new, unregulated
businesses
3/11/85
Mikhail Gorbachev
becomes Soviet
leader
3/18/85
Capital Cities/ABC
announce merger
5/17/85
Disney breaks out,
gains 24,000%
over the next
decade under CEO
Michael Eisner
5/24/85
Steve Jobs ousted
fromApple
6/4/85
RJ Reynolds,
Nabisco merge
9/27/85
Philip Morris,
General Foods
merge
10/7/85
PLO terrorists
hijack Achille
Lauro, kill
American Leon
Klinghoffer
10/18/85
Genentech gets
FDA OK for first
biotech drug
12/11/85
GE, RCA merge
1/28/86
Space Shuttle
Challenger explodes
3/17/86
Microsoft IPO trading
begins
4/6/86
EMC IPO trading
begins
4/17/86
Beatrice LBO
4/26/86
Chernobyl nuclear
meltdown
10/9/86
Fox Broadcasting
launches, becoming
4th television network
10/22/86
Second Reagan tax
cut
11/6/86
Reagan immigration
reform
1/2/87
Home Depot begins
13-year ascent,
running up 145,000%
3/19/87
FDA approves AZT,
first AIDS treatment
6/12/87
Reagans Tear down
this wall! speech
8/11/87
Alan Greenspan
confirmed as Federal
Reserve Chairman
9/24/87
Discount broker
Charles Schwab goes
public
10/19/87
Black Monday sparks
1987 stock crash
2/1/88
Leaders &Success
debuts
2/2/88
Investors Corner
debuts
1988
Howto Make Money
in Stocks first
published
6/22/88
Dell goes public,
soars from
split-adjusted 1 penny
to 59.69 at top of
market in March 2000
12/21/88
Terrorist bomb kills
259 aboard Pan Am
Flight 103
2/14/89
Ayatollah Khomeini
calls for death of
Salman Rushdie for
Satanic Verses book
3/24/89
Exxon Valdez oil spill
4/13/89
American Continental
Corp. files Chapter 11
6/1/89
Amgen gets FDA
approval for
blockbuster drug
Epogen
6/4/89
Tiananmen Square
massacre
7/15/89
Seinfeld debuts
7/17/89
Stealth bomber
debuts
8/6/91
TimBerners-Lee
invents the Internet
11/9/89
Fall of Berlin Wall
unites East, West
Berlin
12/20/89
Panama invasion
begins. Noriega
surrenders 1/3/90
12/3/89
Cold War declared
over at Malta Summit
1/20/89
George H.W. Bush
inaugurated as
president
2/11/90
Nelson Mandela freed
after 27 years in jail
2/16/90
Cisco begins trading.
Closes 1st month at
split-adjusted 8 cents,
peaks at 82 in 2000
4/24/90
Michael Milken
accepts plea deal, is
fined $600 million. He
also agrees, in a
related civil suit, to
pay $500 million to
Drexels investors
4/24/90
Hubble Space
Telescope launched
8/2/90
SaddamHussein
invades Kuwait
10/3/90
Germany begins
Unification Day
holiday
10/18/90
Nasdaq begins
10-year bull run
11/5/90
George H. W. Bush tax
hike
11/22/90
Margaret Thatcher
resigns as British
prime minister
9/16/91
Investors Daily
becomes Investors
Business Daily
1/1/91
Intel turns chips from
commodity to
celebrity with Intel
Inside campaign
1/18/91
Launch of Operation
Desert Storm
2/25/91
WarsawPact
dissolves
2/28/91
Cease-fire in Gulf War
6/21/91
P.V. Narasimha Rao
becomes premier of
India; with new
finance minister
begins reforming
economy
8/17/91
Soviet coup bid; lasts
two days
12/26/91
Soviet Union dissolves
1/8/92
Deng Xiaoping tour
prepares China for
economic reforms
2/21/92
U.N. Protection Force
formed to keep peace
amid Yugoslav conflict
3/19/92
America Online goes
public, brings
information
superhighway to main
street
4/29/92
L.A. riots
6/26/92
Starbucks starts
trading, turning small
into tall
8/24/92
Hurricane Andrew
12/5/92
Operation Restore
Hope sends troops to
protect humanitarian
aid, efforts in Somalia
1/29/93
SPY starts trading,
birth of ETF industry
2/26/93
Truck bomb detonates
at World Trade Center

3/22/93
Intel Pentiumchip
released
4/12/93
NATO Operation Deny
Flight enforces no-fly
zone over Bosnia and
Herzegovina
8/10/93
Clinton tax hike
11/1/93
European Union is
created
12/8/93
Clinton signs North
American Free Trade
Agreement
1/17/94
Northridge
earthquake
4/7/94
Genocide in Rwanda
4/27/94
S. Africa holds first
multiracial elections
after apartheid falls;
Mandela elected
president
4/14/94
NewAmerica debuts
9/19/94
Operation Uphold
Democracy in Haiti to
restore power to
elected President
Aristide
9/26/94
HillaryCare defeated
9/29/94
Interstate banking
approved
12/8/94
Clinton signs General
Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade
12/11/94
Russian forces attack
Chechnya
1/17/95
Prodigy offers full
access to World Wide
Web
4/19/95
Oklahoma City
Bombing
7/17/95
Nasdaq tops 1000
8/9/95
Netscape
Communications,
maker of first popular
Web browser, ushers
in dot-comboomwith
big IPO
10/3/95
O.J. Simpson verdict
7/25/96
Bombing at Atlanta
Summer Olympic
Games
8/22/96
Welfare reform
10/7/96
Fox News Channel
begins broadcasting
12/5/96
Greenspans irrational
exuberance speech;
Nasdaq dives 3.1%,
rallies 300%by March
2000

5/15/97
Amazon.comIPO
begins trading

7/1/97
Hong Kong returns to
Chinese rule
7/2/97
Thailand drops fixed
exchange rate for
floating; Asian
Contagion ensues
7/9/97
Steve Jobs returns to
Apple as interimCEO
8/4/97
IBD/TIPP Poll debuts
8/5/97
Clinton tax cut
10/28/97
NYSE volume tops 1
billion shares for first
time
10/20/97
Industry Snapshot
debuts
4/6/98
Sandy Weill combines
Citi and Travelers
4/13/98
Bank of America,
NationsBank merge
7/11/98
U.S. crude oil hits
record $147.27 a barrel
8/7/98
Al-Qaida attacks U.S.
embassies in Kenya,
Tanzania
9/15/98
The Big Picture, IBD
Top 10 debuts
9/23/98
Long-TermCapital
Management
collapses
10/13/98
Top NATO Council
authorizes airstrikes
on Yugoslavia
12/19/98
President Clinton
impeached
1/1/99
Euro takes effect
2/2/99
Hugo Chavez elected
Venezuela president
3/16/99
Dowtops 10,000 for
first time
4/14/99
Schwab hits
all-time peak
after climax run
11/12/99
Glass-Steagall
Act repealed
12/20/99
Portuguese
return Macau
to Chinese
rule
12/31/99
Boris Yeltsin resigns
as Russias president,
making Vladimir Putin
acting president
1/1/00
Y2K bug fizzles
1/10/00
AOL announces
plan to buy
Time Warner for
$164 billion,
creating worlds
largest media
company
3/10/00
Nasdaq tops at
5132.52;
Tech bubble
bursts;
Nasdaq
implodes
78%
over next
2 1/2 years
4/3/00
Microsoft
loses
antitrust
suit
6/26/00
First survey of Human
Genome mapping
complete
8/28/00
Stocks priced in
decimals
10/12/00
Attack on U.S.S. Cole
10/23/00
Regulation FD (Full
Disclosure) goes into
effect
12/12/00
Supreme Court
decides Bush v. Gore
1/3/01
Nasdaq volume tops
3 billion shares
for first time

1/4/01 NYSE volume tops 2 billion
shares for first time
6/7/01 First George W. Bush tax cut
8/9/01 Bush allows federal funding for
stem-cell research
9/3/01 Hewlett-Packard, Compaq merge
9/11/01 Sept. 11 attacks
10/7/01 Operation Enduring Freedom
launches in Afghanistan
10/22/01 Enron acknowledges SEC
investigation
10/23/01 Apple introduces iPod
10/31/01 U.S. says it will stop issuing
30-year bonds
12/2/01 Enron files for bankruptcy
1/28/02
Global Crossing files
for bankruptcy
6/14/02
Al-Qaida attacks U.S.
Consulate in Pakistan
7/21/02
WorldComdeclares
bankruptcy after
then-record financial
fraud
10/2/02
First in a three-week
series of sniper
attacks in D.C., Va.,
Md.
1/22/03
IBD introduces eIBD
2/1/03
Space Shuttle
Columbia explodes on
re-entry
3/3/03
The Market Pulse
debuts
3/17/03
Big Picture calls 2003
market follow-
through
3/19/03
Operation Iraqi
Freedombegins
4/14/03
IBD 100 debuts
5/28/03
Second George W.
Bush tax cut
8/19/04
Google IPO begins
trading
Nov-04
Bush reelected,
IBD/TIPP is No. 1 poll
predicting actual
victory over Kerry
3/24/04
European
Commission tells
Microsoft to stop
bundling products
with operating system

3/31/04
Iraqi mob kills four
American contractors
in Fallujah

5/1/04
Ten more nations join
European Union,
raising total members
to 25

6/5/04
Ronald Reagan dies at
age 93

6/21/04
First civilian in
privately developed
aircraft reaches space

6/30/04
Fed raises fed funds
rate for first time in
four years

12/7/04
IBMsells PC division
to Chinese company
Lenovo
12/26/04
Tsunami devastates
Asia

2/10/05
North Korea admits to
having nuclear
weapons

3/2/05
Fed chief Alan
Greenspan tells
Congress budget
deficit unsustainable

3/15/05
WorldComchief
Bernard Ebbers
convicted of fraud

7/7/05
Series of suicide
bombings kills 52,
injures 700 in London.
7/21/05
In face of U.S.
pressure, China says
it will no longer peg
yuan to dollar

8/29/05
Hurricane Katrina
strikes NewOrleans
10/24/05
Bush nominates Ben
Bernanke to succeed
Alan Greenspan at
Fed
1/19/06
Osama bin Laden
warns U.S. of plan to
resume terrorist
attacks

2/4/06
Protests against
anti-Muhammad
cartoons sweep
Muslimworld

4/12/06
Massachusetts enacts
Gov. Romneys
universal health plan

5/10/06
Congress OKs cutting
taxes on dividends,
capital gains by $70
billion

6/15/06
Bill Gates announces
plan to withdrawfrom
Microsoft day-to-day
operations

9/13/06
Senate Judiciary
Committee votes 10-8
to let NSA monitor
emails, international
phone calls

10/9/06
Google agrees to buy
YouTube

10/17/06
U.S. population,
100 million in 1915,
hits 300 million
10/19/06
Dowcloses
above 12,000
for first time

11/5/06
Iraq court
finds Saddam
Hussein guilty
of crimes
against
humanity
12/30/06
SaddamHussein
executed
1/1/07
Two more nations join
EU, lifting total to 27
1/9/07
Apple introduces
iPhone, truly
launching the
smartphone era
2/16/07
DVD-by-mail leader
Netflix begins video
streaming
2/27/07
U.S. stock market
swoons following
plunge in China
7/3/07
Uptick rule removed
for short sales
7/14/07
Russias Putin quits
treaty limiting
conventional weapons
in Europe
7/31/07
Australias Rupert
Murdoch OKd to buy
DowJones
8/10/07
In two days, Fed
injects $72 billion into
U.S. economy after
mortgage-related
losses
12/6/07
Senate approves tax
relief for middle class
2/12/08
IBD Smart Tables
ranked by industry
sector debuts
2/24/08
Cubas Raul Castro
replaces Fidel as
president
3/14/08
Bear Stearns
collapses, receives
funding through JP
Morgan guaranteed
by Fed
4/7/08
IBD cartoonist
Michael Ramirez wins
Pulitzer
9/6/08
U.S. bails out Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac
9/15/08
Lehman Bros. files for
bankruptcy
9/16/08
American Insurance
Group (AIG) credit
downgrade essentially
bankrupts company
10/3/08
Bush signs TARP bill
to buy assets of failing
banks
10/9/08
Iceland debt crisis
11/4/08
Barack Obama
elected president.
IBD/TIPP predicted
Obamas win over
McCain exactly at
52.9%-45.7%
11/25/08
Fed announces
quantitative
easing

12/11/08
Bernie Madoff
arrested
in massive
Ponzi scheme
securities
fraud
2/12/08
IBD Industry Themes,
Income Investor debut
2/17/09
Obama signs $787
billion stimulus bill
into law
3/12/09
Big Picture calls
March 2009
follow-through
Oct. - 09
Jobless rate peaks at
10%

1/4/10
Dubais Burj Khalifa
becomes tallest
building in the world
at 2,717 feet
3/23/10
Obama signs
ObamaCare into law
4/3/10
Apple released first
iPad for purchase
4/20/10
Deepwater Horizon oil
spill begins
5/6/10
Wild swings of Flash
Crash stun U.S.
stocks
7/21/10
Dodd-Frank financial
reformsigned into law

11/2/10
GOP wins back House
of Representatives

11/3/10
Fed introduces QE2
12/18/10
Tunisia protests begin
Arab Spring
1/3/11
IBD 50 debuts
2/7/11
AOL acquires
Huffington Post
5/2/11
Osama bin Laden
killed
10/5/11
Steve Jobs dies
5/18/12
Facebook IPO trading
begins
6/22/12
Tesla Model S
deliveries begin

7/26/12
ECB President Mario
Draghi vows to do
whatever it takes to
save euro
9/11/12
U.S. Consulate in
Benghazi, Libya,
attacked
9/13/12
Fed launches QE3
10/29/12
U.S. markets
close for
Hurricane
Sandy
11/6/12
IBD/TIPP
nails 3rd
straight
presidential
election as
most accurate
poll as Obama
reelected
12/20/12
ICE agrees to buy
NYSE
12/24/12
The Short Side debuts
1/2/13
Obama signs law
raising capital gains
tax for wealthy by 58%
2/3/13
Michael Dell takes
Dell private
5/6/13
IBDs ETF Market
Strategy debuts
12/18/13
Fed begins tapering
bond buys
11/19/13
Disneys Frozen
premieres, becomes
highest-grossing
animated filmof all
time

12/16/13
FDA OKs Gileads
hepatitis C drug
Sovaldi

2013
222 U.S. IPOs, best
year since 2000
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