Black Thursday

Black Thursday is a term used to refer to typically negative, notable events that have occurred on a Thursday. It has been used in the following cases:

• 21 June 1877 execution of 10 suspected leaders of the "Molly Maguires"
• 8 November 1901 (21 November in the Gregorian calendar), the climax of the gospel riots in Athens.
• 24 October 1929, start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• 14 October 1943, when the USAAF suffered large losses during bombing in the second Schweinfurt raid during World War II
• 21 November 1968, day of protests by students at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 12 April 1973, clashes between the police and right-wing demonstrators in Milan resulted in the killing of policeman Antonio Marino.
• 30 May 1975, the massacre of about 50 Lebanese Christians in the area of Bashoura in West Beirut.
• 3 September 1987, known as the "Black Thursday of Warsaw Transit", when in two separate rail accidents in Warsaw, Poland, had died 15 people
• 24 July 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish for "Black Thursday"), when violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
• 30 September 2009, when the Irish government revealed to its people the alleged full cost of bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank
• 15 November 2018, the Franco-Ontarian jeudi noir when the government of Ontario announced the elimination of several Franco-Ontarian institutions
• 12 March 2020, Black Thursday stock market crash
• A massacre during the 2022 Chadian protests
• "Black Thursday", the week day preceding Black Friday

See also

• Bloody Thursday (disambiguation)

References