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Black Thursday is a term used to refer to certain events which occur on a Thursday. It has been used in the following cases:
- February 6, 1851, Black Thursday bushfires, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, the largest recorded bushfire in Victoria
- October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange
- October 14, 1943, when the Allies suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
- August 24, 1995, when the Moscow interbank credit market collapsed[1]
- February 8, 1996, the Black World Wide Web protest against the Communications Decency Act in the United States
- July 24, 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish: Black Thursday), when a series of violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
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