Black Thursday

Black Thursday

Black Thursday can mean:

* October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange
* October 14, 1943, when the Allies suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
* August 24, 1995, when the Moscow interbank credit market collapsed [ [http://www.kommersant.com/t301259/r_3/n_27/Banking_1991-2000/ Banking 1991-2000] Kommersant, Russia's Daily Online]
* February 8, 1996, the Black World Wide Web protest against the Communications Decency Act in the United States
* July 24, 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish: Black Thursday), when a series of violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
* Black Thursday October 2, 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 348.22 points (or 3.2%), the FTSE 100 dropped 89.3 points (or 1.8%), the NASDAQ dropped 92.68 points (or 4.5%), the NYSE dropped 364.54 points (or 4.8%), and the S&P 500 dropped 46.78 points (or 4%).
* Black Thursday October 9, 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 678.97 points (or 7.3%), the FTSE 100 dropped 238.5 points (or 5.2%), the NASDAQ dropped 95.21 points (or 5.5%), the NYSE dropped 496.37 points (or 7.9%), and the S&P 500 dropped 75.02 points (or 7.6%) on continuing uncertainty in credit markets and fears of a possible GM bankruptcy.

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