The greatest financial disaster of the century, the Wall Street crash signalled the end of the roaring twenties and the beginning of the Great Depression. Beginning on September 4, 1929 and lasting to mid-November, the Wall Street crash devastated the world economy. On Friday October 25, 1929, the Daily Mail ran a headline that read “Greatest Crash in Wall Street’s History.” It hauntingly depicted the massive extent of the damage, not to mention the historic nature of the crash itself. It came just one day after Black Thursday, which is generally considered the true start of the crash owing to the large amount of panic selling. With this headline, people knew the world was spiraling into chaos.