On February 23, 1995, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 30.28 to close at 4003.33 – the Dow’s first-ever close above 4000.
“Dreaming of 4000” is a song on the Electric Light Orchestra’s third album, On the Third Day.
The only company to have been on the Dow Jones 30 Industrials list since its inception is General Electric.
ETA: … which pioneered electric lighting. 
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General William T. Sherman led Union troops on a celebrated “March to the Sea” in late 1864, from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga., demonstrating the inability of the Confederate government to protect its own heartland.
[del]Charles Brush of Cleveland designed a dynamo for powering arc lamp streetlights. A high school in the Cleveland suburb of Lyndhurst is named for Brush, and its sports teams are called the Arcs in honor of his invention.[/del]
Atlanta (formerly Terminus) received its successive names because it was the terminal point of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Sherman’s middle name was Tecumseh, a Shawnee Native American chief that fought the Americans in Tecumseh’s War and The War of 1812 in Ohio.
In addition to his popular Nero Wolfe series, Rex Stout wrote several mystery novels featuring a detective named Tecumseh Fox.
The wife of the Romulan villain Nero from the 2009 reboot Star Trek film was played by actress Scottie Thompson, previously best known as Dr. Jeanne Benoit on the television series NCIS.
Nero didn’t fiddle when Rome burned – fiddles weren’t invented, and he was out of town at the time. He rushed to the city and led efforts to help its victims.
Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first Olympic women’s marathon in Los Angeles during the 1984 Games…
ETA: … which occurred twenty-four years after Abebe Bikila took the gold in the 1960 Rome Olympics!
Joan Jett and Lita Ford were members of the all-girl rock band, the Runaways.
The movie Runaway featured Gene Simmons as an evil robot making guy.
“Runaway” has been the title of hit songs by a number of artists, including Del Shannon, Bon Jovi, and Janet Jackson.
Janet Jackson had a “wardrobe malfunction” and showed her bare breast while performing during a Super Bowl halftime show with Justin Timberlake, resulting in a large fine being imposed by the FCC.
[del]Del Shores is the writer of the plays Southern Baptist Sissies, Sordid Lives, Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife and Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will, all of which are set in Texas.[/del]
Janet Jackson was born in Gary Indiana and has been married twice- first to James DeBarge and then to Rene Elizondo (a marriage that was kept secret for several years).
Canadian singer R. Dean Taylor, best known for “Indiana Wants Me,” co-wrote the Supremes’ hit “Love Child.”
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Suddenly, the thread title, about your mother, from a couple years back make sense!
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Cheap Trick’s song, “I Want You To Want Me”, failed to chart as a single in the U.S. when released as a studio recording in 1977. But, the live version, from their Cheap Trick at Budokan concert album, became their biggest-selling single in the U.S.
Michael Moore dropped in on Cheap Trick’s Rick Neilsen at his home in Rockford, Illinois as part of his 1996 documentary The Big One.