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Stock Market History
Here we have a calculator for stock market historians who may be interested in when and why. Starting in 1896, this will calculate the average return for the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index.

From Year:	To Year:

War
World War II	39-45
Korean War	50-53
Six Day War in Middle East	1967
Vietnam War	65-73
Iraq invades Kuwait – Gulf War	1990
Victory in the Gulf War	1991

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World Events
1929 Market Crash	1929
Great Depression	29-32
Pearl Harbor	1941
Berlin Blockade	48-49
Sputnik	1957
Minimum Wage $1.00	1955
Cuban Missile Crisis	1962
Neil Armstrong lands on Moon	1969
Gold Standard Abandon	1971
Oil peaks -$6 a barrel	1972
Minimum Wage $2.00	1974
Arab Oil Embargo	1973
First Intel Microchip	1971
Bear Market	73-74
Gold $875 per oz	1981
Stock Market Crash	1987
Mexican Peso Collapses	1994
Bull Market	95-99
Bear Market	00-02