Black Wednesday (disambiguation)
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Black Wednesday was a British financial crisis on 16 September 1992.
Black Wednesday may also refer to:
- Other one-time events:
- 9 January 1878: Black Wednesday 1878, a political crisis in Victoria, Australia
- September 15, 1954: Black Wednesday 1954, a 1954 air traffic control crisis caused by severe weather in the East Coast of the United States
- September 27, 1968: Black Wednesday 1968, a day of despair in the 1967 Chicago White Sox season
- April 3, 1974: Black Wednesday 1974 – 1974 Super Outbreak, the most violent tornado outbreak on record with 30 out of 148 tornadoes being of F4-F5 intensity, with 7 F5 tornadoes recorded
- February 25, 1981: Black Wednesday 1981, when Michael Scott fired forty employees at Apple Computer
- 26 March 1986: Black Wednesday 1986, the day when Swindon Works closed after 143 years of operation
- 25 May 2005: Black Wednesday 2005, a day of mass sexual assault in Egypt
- April 27, 2011: Black Wednesday 2011 – 2011 Super Outbreak, the most prolific day with tornadoes in recorded history, which saw 216 tornadoes with 15 violent tornadoes and 4 EF5 tornadoes
- 26 June 2013: Black Wednesday 2013, the first Wednesday of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships in which a number of former world number ones got knocked out in the second round of the tournament
- 8 April 2026: Black Wednesday 2026, Israeli attacks in Lebanon which killed more than 300 people
- Black Wednesday (comic), a 1959 Disney comic by Carl Barks
- Black Wednesday in United Kingdom health care, first Wednesday in August, parallel to U.S. "July effect"
