Black Thursday

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, a devastating day of bushfires in Victoria, Australia
• 21 June 1877, an 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.
• 22 January 1987, the Mendiola massacre, which claimed the lives of 13 protesters in Manila, Philippines
• 3 September 1987, known as the "Black Thursday of Warsaw Transit", when 15 people died in two separate rail accidents in Warsaw, Poland
• 24 July 2003, when former Guatemalan president Efraín Ríos Montt's supporters rioted in protest of a court decision barring him from standing in the 2003 general election
• 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

• Bloody Thursday (disambiguation)

References

1. "The Legend of the Molly Maguires | Pennsylvania Center for the Book". pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
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. "stock market crash of 1929". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
4. "Black Thursday: Schweinfurt, October 14, 1943". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
5. "Black Thursday (November 21, 1968)". Wisconsin Historical Society. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
6. 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.
7. "Bleak outlook after Irish banks bail out". BBC News. 30 September 2010.
8. "Lenihan on Black Thursday". Evening Herald . 30 September 2010.
9. Vachet, Benjamin (25 November 2018). "Le " jeudi noir " de l'Ontario français". ONFR.