What date was Black Tuesday, the most dramatic selling day of the 1929 Wall Street Crash?

Black Tuesday, the most dramatic selling day of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, occurred on October 29, 1929.

On that Tuesday, investors traded millions of shares as panic selling accelerated. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply, and the day became one of the defining moments of the crash that ended the speculative boom of the 1920s.

Black Tuesday followed Black Thursday on October 24 and Black Monday on October 28. Although the market had severe losses on each of those days, the crash was a process rather than a single afternoon. The Dow continued falling after October 29 and reached its eventual low in July 1932.

The crash is often linked with the Great Depression, but the relationship was complex. Banking failures, falling demand, debt, policy choices, and international economic problems also contributed to the Depression. The crash itself did not instantly create every later economic difficulty.