Did you Know? The 1929 Wall Street Crash Did Not Cause a Rash of Suicides
The most dramatic stock market meltdown in US history happened on Black Tuesday, October 24th, 1929. It is often assumed that the financial crisis resulted in innumerable suicides, however this was not the case. There were two of them.
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