This is a list of stock market crashes. Black Monday (1987) on the Dow Jones Industrial Average A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. ...

• Panic of 1819
• Panic of 1837 - May 10, 1837
• Black Friday - September 24, 1869
• Der Krach - May 9, 1873, initiated the Long Depression in the United States and much of Europe
• Stock Market Crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash or the Wall Street Crash, leading to the Great Depression
  • Black Thursday - October 24, 1929
  • Black Monday - October 28, 1929
  • Black Tuesday - October 29, 1929
• Black Monday - October 19, 1987
• Friday the 13th mini-crash - October 13, 1989 - Failed Leveraged buyout deal of United Airlines causes crash.
• Black Wednesday,1992,United kingdom
• Asian financial crisis of 1997: crashes in Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea, and elsewhere
• October 27, 1997 mini-crash: The Asian financial crisis came to a head in this crash
• Russian financial crisis, 1998
• Dot-com bubble crash - March 2000
• post-9/11 crash - September 2001
• Stock market downturn of 2002 - October 2002
• Iranian stock market crisis - 2005-ongoing
• Great Arabian Crash - 2006^{[citation needed]}
• The Chinese Correction (Chinese market drop) - February 27, 2007: The SSE Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbles 9% from unexpected selloffs, the largest drop in 10 years, triggering major drops in worldwide stock markets. (Forbes) (BBC) (Xinhua). (February 27, 2007)
• After the major Chinese market drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States drops 416 points amid fears for growth prospects, the biggest one-day slide since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was the 7th largest drop in the history of the Dow Jones. Sell orders are made so fast that a second analysis computer has to be used, causing an instantaneous 200-point drop at one point (Reuters). (February 27, 2007)

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October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or bootstrap transaction) occurs when a financial sponsor gains control of a majority of a target companys equity through the use of borrowed money or debt. ... United Airlines, also known as United Air Lines, Inc. ... In British politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to September 16, 1992 when the government was forced to withdraw the Pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) by currency speculators—most notably George Soros who earned over US$1 billion in doing so. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 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Further reading

• Robert Sobel Panic on Wall Street: A Classic History of America's Financial Disasters-With a New Exploration of the Crash of 1987 (E P Dutton; Reprint edition, 1988), (Beard 2002) ISBN 0-525-48404-3.

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External links

• Top 10 Worst Point Drops for Dow Jones Industrial Average (as of May 2007)

See also

• List of recessions