The New York Stock Exchange is not open on weekends. Stock Exchanges in America, Europe, and Asia follow the typical Monday to Friday schedule. However, in the Middle East the work week typically runs from Sunday through Thursday.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791 â February 12, 1856) was an African-American tradesman and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He operated and owned a tailoring and dry-cleaning business, and, on March 3,1821, he was granted patent 3306x for a dry scrub process as the first African American to be granted a patent.
William Jennings Bryan is fanning himself in the Rhea County Courthouse in a Dayton, Tenn. during the Scopes monkey trial in July of 1925. Bryan appeared for the prosecution as a Bible expert in the trial of John T. Scopes, a biology teacher, who defied the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution.