[Stateside Twins' Eyeshot] Spring with No Hope

1987 - While a Wall Street stock market crisis spreads to Tokyo and London, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's points record. Colonel Oliver North testifies at the Iran-Contra Affair hearings, while filmmaker Brian DePalma, directs "The Untouchables". More than 400 die in clashes between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi police at Mecca, and Australia celebrates its Bicentennial.

Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood.Wall Street is also shorthand (or a metonym) for the "influential financial interests" of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area.Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges remain headquartered on Wall Street and in the Financial District, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, and NYBOT.