Black Thursday

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For the 1974 French film, see Black Thursday (film).

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:

  • 6 February 1851, bushfires in Victoria, Australia.
  • 18 September 1873, during the Panic of 1873, the U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures[1][failed verification]
  • 21 June 1877, execution of 10 suspected leaders of the "Molly Maguires" that became known as “Black Thursday.”[better source needed]
  • 8 November 1901 (21 November in the Gregorian calendar), the climax of the gospel riots in Athens.[2]
  • 24 October 1929,[citation needed] start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. "Black Tuesday" was the following week on 29 October 1929.
  • 15 August 1940, Schwarzer Donnerstag ("Black Thursday"),[citation needed] 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"
  • 14 October 1943, when the USAAF suffered large losses during bombing in the second Schweinfurt raid during World War II[3]
  • The night of 16/17 December 1943, when RAF Bomber Command losses during the Berlin bombing campaign were particularly high.[citation needed]
  • 12 April 1951 was nicknamed "Black Thursday"[citation needed] by USAF pilots after three MiG-15 squadrons with 30 aircraft attacked 48 B-29 Superfortress bombers protected by about a hundred F-80 Shooting Star and F-84 Thunderjet fighters, over Korea, resulting in the destruction of 10 B-29s.
  • 12 May 1955, first day of the Hock Lee Bus Riots in Singapore[citation needed]
  • 1 September 1960, a disastrous day for American track and field favourites in the Olympic stadium at the 1960 Rome Olympics[better source needed]
  • 4 April 1963, 127 fires burn 185,000 acres in North Carolina[citation needed]
  • 21 November 1968, day of protests by students at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh[4]
  • 17 December 1970, shipyard workers and protesters were killed by the army and militia during the massive protests in Gdynia, Poland[citation needed]
  • 12 April 1973, clashes between the police and right-wing demonstrators in Milan resulted in the killing of policeman Antonio Marino.[5]
  • 22 January 1987, the Mendiola massacre, in which state security forces violently dispersed a farmers' march to Malacañan Palace[failed verification]
  • 8 February 1996, the Black World Wide Web protest against the Communications Decency Act in the United States
  • 24 July 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish for "Black Thursday"), when violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
  • The 6 May 2010 Flash Crash, when the Dow Jones briefly lost more than 900 points[citation needed]
  • 30 September 2009, when the Irish government revealed to its people the alleged full cost of bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank[6][7]
  • 30 September 2010 in Stuttgart,[citation needed] when German police forces used excessive force against protesters that demonstrated against the Stuttgart 21 train station building project.
  • 16 January 2014, when the Parliament of Ukraine ratified restrictive anti-protest laws amid massive anti-government protests.
  • 12 June 2014, when WWE fired 11 wrestlers.[8][failed verification]
  • 15 November 2018, the Franco-Ontarian jeudi noir when the government of Ontario announced the elimination of several Franco-Ontarian institutions[9]
  • 12 March 2020, Black Thursday stock market crash
  • "Black Thursday", the week day preceding Black Friday

See also[]

  • Bloody Thursday (disambiguation)

References[]

  1. ^ Chernow, Ron (1998-05-05). Titan: the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Random House. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-679-43808-3. Retrieved 17 September 2011.[failed verification]
  2. ^ Carabott, Philip (1993). "Politics, orthodoxy, and the language question in Greece: the Gospel Riots of 1901" (PDF). Journal of Mediterranean Studies. 3 (1): 117–138. ISSN 1016-3476. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Black Thursday: Schweinfurt, October 14, 1943". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Black Thursday (November 21, 1968)". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  5. ^ Ferrari, Saverio (2016). 12 aprile 1973. Il 'giovedì nero' di Milano. Quando i fascisti uccisero l'agente Antonio Marino [12 April 1973. The 'Black Thursday' of Milan. When the fascists killed policeman Antonio Marino] (in Italian). Unaltrastoria. ISBN 978-8867181179.
  6. ^ "Bleak outlook after Irish banks bail out". BBC News. 30 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Lenihan on Black Thursday". Evening Herald. 30 September 2010.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2014-06-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)[failed verification]
  9. ^ Vachet, Benjamin (2018-11-25). "Le " jeudi noir " de l'Ontario français". ONFR.
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