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    The 30th Anniversary Of Black Monday: A Day That Made Wall Street Quake

    On Oct. 19, 1987, Wall Street had its single worst trading day ever. Even after three decades, Black Monday still marks the biggest one-day crash, and its impact continues to reverberate.
    by Emily Sullivan Oct 19, 2017 2 minutes
    A trader at the New York Stock Exchange reacts on Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 22 percent ??? the biggest single-day drop in history. / MARIA BASTONE / Getty Images

    Hysteria. Panic.

    Those were words reporters were using on this day 30 years ago to describe the stock market crash, now remembered as Black Monday.

    Oct. 19, 1987, brought the single biggest one-day percentage drop in history — and yes, that includes the 1929 crash

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