Fid Backhouse and others
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Fid Backhouse—along with Kieran Fogarty, Roland Matthews, Joe Toussaint, Janet Zoro, Jackum Brown, and Sal Oliver—is a contributor to 501 Most Devastating Disasters. Earlier versions of their contributions to Britannica first appeared in that book.
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Black Monday, global stock market crash that occurred on October 19, 1987. There have been several Black Mondays in history that are connected to stock market collapses, but what is arguably the worst of them arrived in 1987. October 19 was the day when global stock markets went into collective…
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