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"{{cite web |title=The Legend of the Molly Maguires {{!}} Pennsylvania Center for the Book |url=https://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/legend-molly-maguires |website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu |access-date=18 January 2023}}
• 8 November 1901 (21 November in the Gregorian calendar), the climax of the gospel riots in Athens.{{cite journal|last=Carabott|first=Philip|year=1993|title=Politics, orthodoxy, and the language question in Greece: the Gospel Riots of 1901|journal=Journal of Mediterranean Studies|volume=3|issue=1|pages=117–138|issn=1016-3476|url=http://www.arts.yorku.ca/hist/tgallant/documents/carabottgospelriot_000.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207054728/http://www.arts.yorku.ca/hist/tgallant/documents/carabottgospelriot_000.pdf|archivedate=7 February 2012}}
• 24 October 1929, start of the Wall Street crash of 1929.{{Cite web |date=5 September 2022 |title=stock market crash of 1929 |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/stock-market-crash-of-1929 |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}
• 14 October 1943, when the USAAF suffered large losses during bombing in the second Schweinfurt raid during World War II{{cite web |title=Black Thursday: Schweinfurt, October 14, 1943 |url=https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1519661/black-thursday-schweinfurt-october-14-1943/ |website=National Museum of the United States Air Force™ |access-date=15 October 2021}}
• 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{{cite web |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2031|title=Black Thursday (November 21, 1968) |date=3 August 2012 |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=15 September 2021}}
• 12 April 1973, clashes between the police and right-wing demonstrators in Milan resulted in the killing of policeman Antonio Marino.{{cite book |last=Ferrari |first=Saverio |date=2016 |language=Italian|trans-title=12 April 1973. The 'Black Thursday' of Milan. When the fascists killed policeman Antonio Marino|title=12 aprile 1973. Il 'giovedì nero' di Milano. Quando i fascisti uccisero l'agente Antonio Marino |publisher= Unaltrastoria |isbn=978-8867181179}}
• 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 in two separate rail accidents in Warsaw, Poland, had killed 15 people
• 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{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11443518|title=Bleak outlook after Irish banks bail out|date=30 September 2010|publisher=BBC News}}{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/national-news/lenihan-on-black-thursday-2359451.html|title=Lenihan on Black Thursday|date=30 September 2010|work=Evening Herald}}
• 15 November 2018, the Franco-Ontarian jeudi noir when the government of Ontario announced the elimination of several Franco-Ontarian institutions{{cite web|last=Vachet|first=Benjamin|url=https://onfr.tfo.org/le-jeudi-noir-de-lontario-francais/|title=Le " jeudi noir " de l'Ontario français|date=25 November 2018|website=ONFR}}
• 12 March 2020, Black Thursday stock market crash
• A massacre during the 2022 Chadian protests
• "Black Thursday", the week day preceding Black Friday