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Black Friday

In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are thus known as Black Friday:

• Black Friday (1869) - a financial crisis in the United States

Black Friday - (1912) - WSPU took militant action when the Conciliation Bill failed.

• Black Friday (1929) - a stock market crash in the US
• Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest
• Black Friday (1921) - day on which British dockers' and railwaymen's union leaders announced their decision not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
• Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia
• Black Friday (1945) - Largest air battle over Norway, over Sunnfjord
• Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
• Black Friday (1982) - known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War
• Black Friday (2004) - a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé

Other uses of the term include:

• Black Friday — a name used for any Friday which falls on the 13th of a month.
• Black Friday - the Friday preceding Easter, also known as Good Friday or God Friday.
• Black Friday (shopping) - the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
• Black Friday (1940 film) - science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges and Bela Lugosi.
• Black Friday (2005 film) - an unreleased film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai
• "Black Friday" is the title of a song by Steely Dan
• "Black Friday" is the title of a song by Megadeth
• "Black Friday Rule" is the title of a song by Flogging Molly
• "Black Friday" is the title of a poem written by Dennis Rader, the BTK killer.
• "Black Friday" is the name given to the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom. It is a day when widespread anti-social behaviour due to public alcohol consumption is expected to occur, and police are given additional powers to combat it.

See also: Black Monday, Black Tuesday, Black Wednesday, Black Thursday, Black Saturday and Black Sunday

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