1962: In the wake of President John F. Kennedy's widely quoted (but perhaps apocryphal) remark that "My father always told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches," the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffers its worst one-day point drop since the Crash of 1929, as it sheds 34.95 points, or 5.7%. On "Blue Monday," volume is a huge 9.35 million shares and the ticker runs 2 hours and 28 minutes late in recording the day's closing prices.

John Brooks, The Go-Go Years (Weybright and Talley, New York, 1973), pp. 56-57;Floyd Norris and Christine Bockelmann, The New York Times Century of Business (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000), pp. 182-183