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:

• 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]
• 21 June 1877, execution of 10 suspected leaders of the "Molly Maguires" that became known as “Black Thursday.”
• 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. "Black Tuesday" was the following week on 29 October 1929.
• 15 August 1940, Schwarzer Donnerstag ("Black Thursday"), 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.
• 12 April 1951 was nicknamed "Black Thursday" 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
• 1 September 1960, a disastrous day for American track and field favourites in the Olympic stadium at the 1960 Rome Olympics
• 4 April 1963, 127 fires burn 185,000 acres in North Carolina
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 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]
• 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