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Black Monday noun- 28 May 1962 US
The date of a dramatic stock market crash. - Was it the “little woman” who panicked on Black Monday, May 28, in Wall Street, then in unreasoning terror dumped off her stocks in skyrocketing volume and thereby set off one of the worst stock market slumps of this century? — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 54, 18 June 1962
- Will 1968 see another “Black Monday” in the stock market? — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 58, 1 April 1968
- 19 October 1987 US
The date of the greatest single-day stock market crash in the US since the Depression. - By 4 p.m., after the market bell clanged, economics reporter Mike Jensen would appear with Brokaw to intone that “today will be known as Black Monday” and NBC News consultant Donald Reganwould bid “goodbye to the bull market.” — Washington Post, p. D6, 20 October 1987
- — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops, p. 165, 1988
- — American Speech, Fall 1988
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