List of Black Thursdays

Black Thursday is a term used to refer to events which occurred on a Thursday. It has been used in the following cases:

  • February 6, 1851, Black Thursday, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia
  • September 18, 1873, during the Panic of 1873 when the U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures
  • October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange. "Black Tuesday" was the following week on October 29, 1929.
  • August 15, 1940, Schwarzer Donnerstag ("Black Thursday"), when the German Luftwaffe mounted its largest number of sorties during the Battle of Britain, and suffered its heaviest losses; known in Britain as "The Greatest Day".
  • October 14, 1943, when the Allied air forces suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
  • The night of 16/17 December 1943, when RAF Bomber Command losses during the Berlin bombing campaign were particularly high due to combat losses and bad weather over home airfields
  • August 24, 1995, when the Moscow interbank credit market collapsed
  • February 8, 1996, the Black World Wide Web protest against the Communications Decency Act in the United States
  • July 24, 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish for Black Thursday), when a series of violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
  • The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, when the Dow Jones briefly lost more than 900 points in response to the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and algorithmic trading
  • 30 September 2010, when the Irish government revealed to its people the alleged full cost of bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank, causing the country's deficit to rise to 32% of GDP
  • Thanksgiving Day, the shopping holiday preceding Black Friday

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    “The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
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    “Lovers, forget your love,
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