Each morning, I go through a similar routine: I wake up (no alarm clock), go to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee (this is my machineof choice lately), launch a script that opens 40 or so Firefox tabs. As part of my morning research, I quickly scan this series of websites to see what happened overnight, and what might be interesting.
Part of that list is Jason Zweig's "This Day in Financial History,'' which led to this morning's gem: Today in 1997:
