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Black Tuesday

What happened on Black Tuesday?

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Wall Street 1929 - 1932

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Encik Tekateki [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The crash of the stock market happened on Tuesday, October 29, 1929. When stock prices collapsed, around $15 billion dollars was lost in one single day. The crash lasted for four days, and millions of people lost money in the crash. Many people lost everything they had.

Lone man in farmer's overalls, San Francisco's Skid Row at Howard Street.

The stock market crash on Black Tuesday was the worst economic event in history.