October 23. Stock market panic begins, bringing on Great Depression in 1929.

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October 23, 1929.  Stock market panic begins, bringing on Great Depression.Photographic postcard of three stock brokers reacting to plummeting prices in lower Manhattan.

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October 23. Birdie Cree is born in 1882.

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October 22. Bill Carrigan is born in 1883.