Definition - What does Closing Date mean? The closing date refers to the date when a company purchase and sale transaction is signed off and completed. This date may be different than the effective date, which is the date when the transaction is deemed to have occurred. Most of the time, the closing and effective date of a transaction is the same day.
The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States, Black Tuesday took place on October 29, 1929 and was when the price of stocks completely collapsed. It was because of this day that the Roaring Twenties came to a stumbling halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression.
Monday will mark the U.S. national holiday in memory of the fallen civil rights leader, who was assassinated in 1968. Photo: Reuters. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was planning to make a speech about sanitation workers. He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Room 306.