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* Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929 when stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange fell sharply, with record volume of nearly 13 million shares.
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* 1929 – " Black Thursday " stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday.
These declines fed investor anxiety and events soon came to a head on October 24 ( known as Black Thursday ) and October 28 ( known as Black Monday ) and October 29 ( known as Black Tuesday ).
The specimen of Eucalyptus regnans ( Common Name: Mountain Ash ) stood 91. 6m tall in 2002 and was suspected to have originated after the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires.
" The optimism and financial gains of the great bull market were shaken on " Black Thursday ", October 24, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) abruptly fell.
On October 24 (" Black Thursday "), the market lost 11 % of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading.
According to an article on the front page of the Moose Lake ( Minnesota ) Star on January 17, 1901: " Ex-governor John Lind after having freed himself from the duties of governor last Thursday walked down to the Dispatch office in St. Paul and administered to Editor Black a well-deserved licking.
Historians and economists still have not agreed on the causes of the Great Depression, but there is general agreement that it began in the United States in late 1929, and was either started or worsened by " Black Tuesday ", the stock market crash of Thursday, October 24, 1929.
( The terms Black Monday and Black Tuesday are also applied to October 28 and 29, 1929, which occurred after Black Thursday on October 24, which started the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
* Wall Street Crash of 1929 ( Black Thursday )
A constitutional ban on former coup leaders ( Ríos Montt during 1982-83 ) led to strong conflict inside the country, including the besiegement of Guatemala for a day: 24 July 2003, known as jueves negro (" Black Thursday ").
In recent years, retailers have been trending towards opening on Black Thursday, Thanksgiving evening.
In 2011, Walmart has for the first time launched its holiday sale at 10: 00 PM on Black Thursday.
* 1851 — Black Thursday
He called the results " Black Thursday ", said the Conservatives needed to fight the next general election on a " balanced ticket " and that " no one seriously supposes that the Prime Minister would be Prime Minister throughout the entire period of the next Parliament ".
* 1851: Black Thursday bushfires in February
Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including Samurai !, Black Thursday, Thunderbolt !, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38, Zero !, The Ragged, Rugged Warriors, A Torch to the Enemy and many other works of military history.
* 1851-February 6 " Black Thursday "
Financial panic arrived in America only months later on Black Thursday, September 18, 1873 after the failure of the banking house of Jay Cooke and Company over the Northern Pacific Railway.
The Alps, particularly the Victorian Alps, are periodically subject to major bushfires and have been almost entirely burnt through by bushfires on various occasions, notably ; Black Thursday in 1851, Black Friday ( 1939 ), and during fires in 2003 and 2006-07.
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For the most part, Graeco-Roman tradition refers to the Black Sea as the ' Hospitable sea ', Euxeinos Pontos ().
Among Black players, the name " craps " refers primarily to the casino version of the game that is played on a marked felt surface on a table.
Black panther refers to leopards with melanistic genes, which are not uncommon in rainforest habitats.
* Black Friday refers to any one of several historical disasters that happened on Fridays, and, in a general sense, to any Friday the 13th.
* Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to Tuesday, October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929.
It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday, though the latter properly refers to the Friday in Easter week.
The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".
On " 75 Bars ( Black's Reconstruction )" off the Rising Down album, Black Thought refers to The Roots as " gentlemen of an extraordinary league ".
A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.
The Black Warrior Council office is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the council's name refers to Chief Tuskaloosa whose name means Black Warrior. Black Warrior Council # 6
The 1987 Encyclopedia of Kentucky refers to Greenville as " the unofficial capital of the Black Belt ", a reference to the area's production of coal and dark tobacco.
Helping Rob in his task of musical elitism are Dick ( Todd Louiso ) and Barry ( Jack Black ), the " musical moron twins ," as he refers to them.
The 1982 August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom took its title from her song of the same name recorded in December of 1927, which ostensibly refers to the Black Bottom dance of the time.
* Driving While Black, a phrase in the contemporary American vernacular that refers to the criminalization of black drivers
In politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit.
The Black Legend () refers to a style of historical writing or propaganda that demonizes the Conquistadores and in particular the Spanish Empire in a politically motivated attempt to incite animosity against Spain.
The English name ' Black Vulture ' refers to the plumage colour, while ' Monk Vulture ', a direct translation of its German name Mönchsgeier, refers to the bald head and ruff of neck feathers like a monk's cowl.
This refers to the idea that the traditional ideas and values of the Civil Rights Movement placated to the emotions and feelings of White liberal supporters rather than Black Americans who had to consistently live with the racism and other acts of violence that was shown towards them.
* The film Black Dog refers to the game at multiple times during the movie, as well as the main character's vehicle becoming afflicted with a ' permanent ' padiddle for the remainder of the film.
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Cover of the October 1934 issue of Weird Tales featuring " Black God ’ s Kiss "
The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.
The October 1934 issue of Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask featured the first appearance of the detective character whom Raymond Chandler would develop into the famous Philip Marlowe.
ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.
Born in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal became involved in black nationalism in his youth, and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970.
A study by an international team of researchers published in October 2010 confirmed that Y. pestis was the cause of the Black Death and later epidemics on the entire European continent over a period of 400 years.
* Economic boom ended by " Black Tuesday " ( October 29, 1929 ); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression.
* October 29 – The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa Boeing 727 over Turkey, demanding the release of 3 comrades still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
* October 11 – Claudia Black, Australian actress
* October 15 – Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
* October 30 – Jeremy Black, British historian
* October – November – Several Mongol towns in the Crimea are cleared of inhabitants by the Black Death.
In October 2008, Dark Thrones and Black Flags was released, using much the same style as the previous album.
* October – Ships arrive in southern Italy with the Black Plague
In October, Genoese ships arrived in southern Italy with the Black Plague, beginning the spread of the disease in the region.
* October 10 – Edward, the Black Prince, marries Joan, the ' Fair Maid of Kent '.
A volume of photographs almost completely drawn from the files of the Farm Security Administration, with text by Wright, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States was published in October 1941 to wide critical acclaim.
However, in October 2010, Bear commented on his website that Ken Nolan ( who wrote the screen adaptation for Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down film ), was actively working on a screenplay.
In October 2010, Black Blade Publishing announced that they would be publishing several of Kuntz's original Greyhawk levels, including the Machine Level, the Boreal Level, the Giants ' Pool Hall, and the Garden of the Plantmaster.
The new school was opened by the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Robert Black, in October 1963.
The largest one-day percentage drop occurred on Black Monday ; October 19, 1987, when the average fell 22. 61 %.
In October 2006, four years after its bear market low, the DJIA set fresh record theoretical, intra-day, daily close, weekly, and monthly highs for the first time in almost seven years, closing above the 12, 000 level for the first time on the 19th anniversary of Black Monday ( 1987 ).
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