A (short) History of the DOW

Note: This graph shows the DOW from 1972-2006


Dow Jones Industrial Average Milestones

The Dow Jones Industrial Average first closed above the 1,000 mark in November 1972. It took another 13 years to close above the 1,500 level – on Dec. 11, 1985.

The DJIA closed above 2,000 for the first time on Jan. 8, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan was in office.

1987 was an up-and-down year. The Dow scored its biggest one-day gain in history on April 21, 1987, when it gained 664.7 points. And it racked up its biggest one-day drop a few months later, falling 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 3,000 in April 1991; above 4,000 four years later, in Feb. 1995; and above 5,000 in November 1995. It closed above 6,000 in October 1996, above 7000 and 8000 in 1997, above 9,000 in 1998, and it surpassed the 10,000 and 11,000 levels in 1999.

The Dow reached its all-time high of 11,722.98 on Jan. 14, 2000.

Now that's a big mistake

Cocaine left in returned rental car
Lawrence find leads to 2 arrests
By David Abel, Globe Staff September 14, 2006

Two packages left in a rented minivan in Lawrence this week led police to make the largest drug bust in city history, authorities said yesterday.

After receiving a call about the suspicious packages Tuesday from a car rental company in Lawrence, police found more than $1 million worth of cocaine in two liquor boxes, which were coated with transmission fluid to conceal the scent. Later they linked the packages to a home in Methuen, where they found another $1.5 million worth of cocaine and $123,000 in cash.

``In terms of this area, it's the biggest drug bust ever," said Lawrence Police Chief John J. Romero in a phone interview. ``This was an unbelievable amount of drugs."

Police arrested Nicole Paquette , 30, of Haverhill, and Angel Ayala , of Philadelphia, both of whom pleaded not guilty in Lawrence District Court yesterday to charges of drug trafficking and possession, Romero said. Paquette was held on $30,000 bail and Ayala on $500,000, he said.

Employees at the car rental company on South Union Street -- Romero would not provide its name -- called Lawrence police about 11 a.m. Tuesday. Paquette had rented the minivan a few days before and logged 2,400 miles, he said. It wasn't the first time she had rented a vehicle there, Romero said.

Police arrested Paquette when she responded to a police-arranged call about the packages and came to retrieve them.

A few hours later, they followed Ayala from a bar in Lawrence to the home in Methuen, where they arrested him

I thought we were making all animals die?

A new bird species has been found in India, the first time such a discovery has been made here in more than 50 years, an astronomer and keen bird watcher said Tuesday.

The multicolored bird, Bugun Liocichla, was spotted in May in the remote Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near the border with China, said Ramana Athreya, a member of Mumbai's Natural History Society.

Athreya, who found the bird, named it after the Bugun tribe, which lives in the area. The bird has a black cap, a bright yellow patch around the eyes and yellow, crimson, black and white patches on the wings, he told The Associated Press.

Birdlife International, a global alliance of conservation organizations, described it on its Web site Tuesday as "the most sensational ornithological discovery in India for more than half a century."

Athreya caught two of the species, but released them after making detailed notes and taking photographs _ and keeping feathers that had worked loose in his net.

"We thought the bird was just too rare for one to be killed," Athreya said.

"With today's modern technology, we could gather all the information we needed to confirm it as a new species. We took feathers and photographs and recorded the bird's songs," he said.

Though the bird was discovered in May, the news was kept under wraps until it was confirmed that it was a new species.

Athreya said he had first briefly spotted the bird in 1995. "But it was only this year I had a sufficiently good look that we could move into the matter."

You can't make this stuff up:

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A dolphin that lost her tail near Cape Canaveral may be getting a new artificial one.

Winter, a 10-month-old bottlenose dolphin, was found in December and is now being cared for at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

Officials there hope to raise enough money -- about $100,000 -- to help pay for a rare operation so Winter can receive an artificial tail.

She has learned to swim and play without her tail that she lost in crab trap line. Instead of swimming up and down like a regular dolphin, she is swimming from side to side like a shark.
A Japanese dolphin was given an artificial tail prosthesis in 2004.