Calendar of past and upcoming economic events in months and dates
If you want to read the news, choose the year and the month from the pull down menus under the calendar to the right and click on…. There is news only for those dates that are links. Click on the corresponding date and you will see a list of news only for that day.
On October 19, 1987 the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 508 points, which was more than half a trillion dollars of capital losses for a day. The daily trade volume reached the level of about 604 million stocks. Later it became known as the Black Monday.