Black Tuesday

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Black Tuesday refers to a number of different things:

• The phrase Black Tuesday refers to the day October 29, 1929, five days after the United States stock market crash of Black Thursday, when general panic set in so that everyone with investments in the market tried to pull out of the market at once. This week and its aftermath marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States. While Black Tuesday is often cited as the worst day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, in terms of percentage loss, the largest occurred on December 12, 1914 (after the outbreak of World War I and the subsequent five-month close of the market), while the greatest point loss occurred on September 17, 2001 (after 9/11 and the subsequent four-day close of the market).

• Black Tuesday was a 1954 film starring Edward G. Robinson and Peter Graves.

• Black Tuesday refers to a day in Bahamian history, April 27, 1965, when then-Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Sir Lynden Pindling threw the Speaker's Mace out of the House of Assembly window in protest against the unfair gerrymandering of constituency boundaries by the then ruling United Bahamian Party (UBP) government.

• In Australia, February 7, 1967 was referred to as Black Tuesday because it was the day of the 1967 Tasmanian fires. A total of 62 lives were lost and more than 1300 homes destroyed by the fires.

• The phrase Black Tuesday has also been used to refer to September 11, 2001, the date of the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center.

• Black Tuesday has also come into use as a reference to the day Microsoft releases bundles of patches for its Windows operating systems: the second Tuesday of each month. These patches represent new software vulnerabilities, and the bulk release of patches is often followed closely by new viruses which exploit the holes the patches fix. See Patch Tuesday.

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