Black Thursday

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

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

• February 6, 1851, Black Thurs bushfires, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, the largest recorded bushfire in Victoria
• 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.
• October 14, 1943, when the Allies suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
• Night of 16th/17th December 1943, when RAF Bomber Command losses in the Berlin bombing campaign were particularly high due to combat losses and bad weather over squadron's 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: Black Thursday), when a series of violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
• The Flash Crash of May 6th, 2010, when the Dow Jones briefly lost more than 900 points in response to the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and algorithmic trading