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Here's why we shouldn't forget about the crash of '87

by David Brancaccio and Janet Nguyen

Oct 18, 2017

On Black Monday, the stock market plunged 22.6 percent.

A trader on the New York Stock Exchange reacts on Oct. 19, 1987, as stocks are devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange's history. The Dow Jones index plummeted over 200 points in record trading.

MARIA BASTONE/AFP/Getty Images

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