Black Thursday
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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 - devastating day of bushfires in Victoria, Australia
- 21 June 1877 execution of 10 suspected leaders of the "Molly Maguires"[1]
- 8 November 1901 (21 November in the Gregorian calendar), the climax of the gospel riots in Athens.[2]
- 24 October 1929, start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[3]
- 14 October 1943, when the USAAF suffered large losses during bombing in the second Schweinfurt raid during World War II[4]
- 12 April 1951, during the Korean War, when 25% of the Far East Air Force B-29 bombing force were damaged or destroyed by Soviet MiG-15s in MiG Alley.
- 21 November 1968, day of protests by students at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh[5]
- 12 April 1973, clashes between the police and right-wing demonstrators in Milan resulted in the killing of policeman Antonio Marino.[6]
- 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[7][8]
- 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
- A massacre during the 2022 Chadian protests
- "Black Thursday", the week day preceding Black Friday
See also
References
- ↑ "The Legend of the Molly Maguires | Pennsylvania Center for the Book". www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "stock market crash of 1929". www.britannica.com. Encyclopedia Britannica. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ↑ "Black Thursday: Schweinfurt, October 14, 1943". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ↑ "Black Thursday (November 21, 1968)". Wisconsin Historical Society. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ↑ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Bleak outlook after Irish banks bail out". BBC News. 30 September 2010.
- ↑ "Lenihan on Black Thursday". Evening Herald. 30 September 2010.
- ↑ Vachet, Benjamin (25 November 2018). "Le " jeudi noir " de l'Ontario français". ONFR.
