The Great Depression and other crashes in History
The Great Depression and the Worst stock market crashes since the DJIA was tracked in 1900.
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Dates |
Duration |
DJIA lost |
Other notes |
| 1 |
4/17/1930 - 7/8/1932 |
813 days |
86% dropping from 294.07 to 41.22 |
This crash took 22 years to recover.
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| 2 |
3/10/1937 - 3/31/1938 |
368 days |
49.1% dropping from 194.40 to 98.95 |
There was a war scare and Wall Street Scandal.
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| 3 |
1/19/1906 - 11/15/1907 |
665 days |
48.5% dropping from 75.45 to 38.83 |
This was the "Panic of 1907" when the US Treasury Department bought 36 million worth of bonds to offset the decline.
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| 4 |
9/3/1929 - 11/13/1929 |
71 days |
47.9% dropping from 381.17 to 198.69 |
This was the shortest crash but deadly. It marks the start of the Great Depression.
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| 5 |
11/3/1919 - 8/24/1921 |
660 days |
46.6% dropping from 119.62 to 63.9 |
The crash was followed by post war boom where prices rose 51%.
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| 6 |
6/17/1901 - 11/9/1903 |
875 days |
46.1% dropping from 57.33 to 30.88 |
This was the oldest crash since the DJIA started trading in 1900
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| 7 |
1/11/1973 - 12/6/1974 |
694 days |
45.1% dropping from 1051.70 to 577.60 |
This crash bottomed out in 694 days.
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| 8 |
9/12/1939 - 4/28/1942 |
959 days |
40.4% dropping from 155.92 to 92.92 |
This crash took 3 years to recover with the World War II and Pearl Harbor.
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| 9 |
11/21/1916 - 12/19/1917 |
393 days |
40.1% dripping from 110.15 to 65.95 |
This was during World War I
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| 10 |
2000 - 2002 |
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The most recent crash which most investors still remember.
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