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A timeline (or several) relating to Crash of 1929.

Stock price changes

(see also the chart for the period 1920 to 1940 [1])
Dow Jones Industrial Average: Low [2]
07/09/29 14/09/29 23/10/29 24/10/29 26/10/29 28/10/29 29/10/29 02/01/30 02/01/31 02/01/32 03/02/33 02/01/34
375 365 303 272 296 256 212 242 161 74 59 99

Timeline

1921 - 1929

Stock market boom: the DJIA index at the 1929 peak is six times its minimum level in 1921 [3].

1927

Discount rate cut from 4% to 3.5%

1928

Discount rate raised to 5%

1929

Discount rate raised to 6%

October

24 Black Thursday
28 Black Monday
29 Black Tuesday