[Daily article] January 24: New York Stock Exchange Building

The New York Stock Exchange Building is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It is composed of two connected structures in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One part, the original structure at 18 Broad Street, was designed in the Classical Revival style by George B. Post; the other is a 23-story office annex at 11 Wall Street, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in a similar style. The NYSE had occupied the site on Broad Street since 1865 but had to expand its previous building several times, and so the structure at 18 Broad Street was erected between 1901 and 1903. Within two decades, the new building had become overcrowded, and the annex at 11 Wall Street was added between 1920 and 1922. The original structure's colonnade is an icon of the NYSE; behind it is the main trading floor, a 72-foot-tall (22 m) rectangular space. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978 and a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1985. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange_Building> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1857: The University of Calcutta, the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent, was established. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calcutta> 1915: First World War: British ships of the Grand Fleet intercepted and surprised a German High Seas Fleet squadron in the North Sea, sinking a cruiser and damaging several other vessels. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_%281915%29> 1966: Air India Flight 101, en route to London from Bombay, crashed into Mont Blanc in Switzerland, killing all 117 people on board. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_101> 1989: American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair in Florida for the murders of 30 young women. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: brumous: (literary) Foggy or misty; wintry. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumous> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   I turned on the news to the Third World War, Opened up the paper to World War IV. Just when I thought it was safe to be bored, Trouble waiting to happen.   --Warren Zevon <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon>