![]() ![]() 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. In 1943, he was 33 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The new organization had broad and stringent rules and oversight and restored public confidence in the stock market in the United States. Roosevelt created a group (one member was Joseph Kennedy, father of the future President Kennedy) who knew Wall Street well and they defined the mission and operating mode for the SEC. Previously, the states regulated the offering and sales of stocks - called "blue sky" laws. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great Depression. In 1934, when he was 24 years old, on June 6th, the U.S. There was panic because one astronomer claimed that the gas from its tail "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." People bought gas masks, "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas". Two fortuitous events occurred - photography had been invented since the last time the comet had passed and the comet was relatively close. In 1910, in the year that Lowell Thomas was born, Halley's comet, which returns past the earth every 75 - 76 years was observed photographically for the first time. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Lowell's lifetime. ![]()
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