Monday, Sep 15, 2025
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1990 - Florida lottery goes over US$100 million.
1994 - Disney Chairman Michael Eisner meets with Peter Rummell to discuss the Disney's America project. Projections of revenues and expenses show that the park would operate at a loss. Eisner decides to abandon the idea to build the historical theme park in Virginia, for financial reasons and due to negative press.
1999 - For the first time in its 28-year history, most of Walt Disney World in Florida is closed for the day, due to the threat of Hurricane Floyd. Disney's Animal Kingdom re-opens at 12:00 PM for resort guests.
2001 - President George W. Bush says that the United States of America is at war against terror.
2001 - The Queen Isabella Causeway in Texas collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing eight.
2006 - Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills one person and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.
2008 - 158-year-old American investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc files for bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest U.S. bankruptcy. Lehman's assets total about US$639 billion, leveraged by only US$30 billion of equity.
2008 - American investment bank Merrill Lynch & Company agrees to sell itself to Bank of America Corp, for US$50 billion. Stock in Bank of America drops 21.3 percent, reducing market value by US$33 billion.