On this day in 1929, during the Great Depression and after a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange began to show signs of panic.
On this day in 1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time.
And on this day in 2003, former Republic of China first lady Soong May-ling, better known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, died in her residence in New York at the age of 105.