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Events on Friday 5 May 1893 1
1893Panic of 1893Stock market crash triggers severe U.S. depressionA wave of railroad bankruptcies and bank failures culminated in a stock market crash in early May 1893, including the collapse of the National Cordage Company. The resulting depression brought widespread unemployment and business failures across the United States for several years.