On this day: November 9

POSTED: 07:01 PM PST Nov 08, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 08, 2012 

Pilgrims on the Mayflower spot land, Jack the Ripper kills for the last time, the PGA integrates, Rolling Stone magazine debuts, and the Berlin Wall begins to fall, all on this day.

OTD November 9 - stock brokers
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1998: A U.S. federal judge orders 37 brokerage houses, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney, to pay $1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

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