1857年8月24日
The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company hit the skids and took the economy with it, plunging America into the Panic of 1857. The Ohio Life closing was neither a surprise nor the sole reason for crisis: America had been boom-busting its way through the nineteenth century, riding rampant overspeculation in railroad and real estate securities to bursts of development which were inevitably followed by bad droughts. And the pattern held true with the Panic, which had been preceded by a flush period of expansion. This particular crisis was brief but painful: 4,923 businesses closed before the end of the year. Eastern cities were ravaged by unemployment, prompting people to take to the streets to protest joblessness and hunger. The financial fog finally lifted by 1859 and development once again charged ahead.
2002年8月24日 境外上市外汇管理新规定出台
为了进一步规范境外上市有关外汇收支行为，完善对境外上市所募集外汇资金的管理，国家外汇管理局与中国证监会联合发布《关于进一步完善境外上市外汇管理有关问题的通知》，《通知》针对的主要是境外上市外资股公司和境外中资控股上市公司，《通知》的出台，为境外上市外汇收支行为提供了明确的法律依据，将促进境外上市活动的规范运行。
