The Great Depression
Black Tuesday — 16 million shares dumped in a single day, wiping out billions and triggering a decad…
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Black Monday 1987
Dow Jones loses 22.6% in a single session — the largest one-day percentage crash in stock market his…
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Dot-Com Bubble Peak
NASDAQ peaks at 5,048 on March 10, 2000, before losing 78% of its value over the following two years…
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2008 Financial Crisis
Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy — the largest in US history — triggering the worst global finan…
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Bitcoin Genesis Block
Satoshi Nakamoto mines the first Bitcoin block, embedding "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for…
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COVID-19 Market Crash
Global markets collapse as COVID-19 lockdowns begin. The Dow posts its largest single-day points dro…
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GameStop Short Squeeze
Reddit's WallStreetBets drives GameStop from $20 to $483, squeezing hedge funds for billions in the …
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FTX Collapse
Crypto exchange FTX files for bankruptcy, exposing billions in missing customer funds in one of the …
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1997 Asian Financial Crisis
Thailand's baht collapses after abandoning its dollar peg, triggering a financial crisis that swept …
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Black Thursday 1929
The first day of the Great Crash — 12.9 million shares traded in a single session as panic selling b…
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