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Black Monday
     
Black Monday
1 Monday, 19 October 1987, the day on which share prices on the stock exchange suddenly fell by a large amount, and many people lost a lot of money
2 Monday, 28 October 1929, the day on which share prices on the Stock Exchange suddenly fell by a large amount, leading to the Great Depression of the 1930s
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