Black Fridays of the World

14th Feb, 2007

After watching Black Friday movie, I tried wiking the term, and I was amazed to find a lot of Black Fridays across the globe. Hope you find it interesting too.

Black Friday may refer to the following historical events:

• Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal (24 Sep), a financial crisis in the United States
• Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth Disaster (14 Oct), in which 189 Scottish fishermen lost their lives in a European windstorm
• Black Friday (1887), hanging of four people which are connected directly or indirectly with the rally of Haymarket Riot at 11 Nov
• Black Friday (1889), the Johnstown Flood (31 May), a flood that killed over 2,200 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• Black Friday (1910), a campaign outside the British House of Commons (18 Nov) of the Women's Social and Political Union the Conciliation Bill failed
• Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square (31 Jan), a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland
• Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders (15 Apr) not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
• Black Friday (1929), the notorious stock-market crash that occurred in late October 1929
• Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating fires in Australia (13 Jan)
• Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the Canadian Black Watch (13 Oct) near Woensdrecht during The Battle of the Scheldt
• Black Friday (1945), an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 Feb), the largest air battle over Norway
• Black Friday (1945), Hollywood Black Friday (5 Oct), a riot at the Warner Bros. studios stemming from a Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU
• Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Avro Arrow project (20 Feb) by Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker leading to the lay off of 30,000 workers
• Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran (8 Sep)
• Black Friday (1982), the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War
• Black Friday (1987), (31 Jul), the day an hour-long F4 category tornado ran through the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Black Friday (1993), bomb blasts in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
• Black Friday (2004), a crackdown in Maldives, Malé (13 Aug) on a peaceful protesters

Black Friday may also refer to:

• Any Friday which falls on the 13th of a month
• Good Friday or God Friday, the Friday preceding Easter
• 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
• The last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom, a day when widespread anti-social behavior due to public alcohol consumption is expected to occur, and police are given additional powers to combat it citation needed
• Black Friday (1940 film), a science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges, and Bela Lugosi
• Black Friday (2005 film), a Hindi film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, directed by Anurag Kashyap
• "Black Friday", a song by Grinspoon
• "Black Friday", a song by Steely Dan from Katy Lied
• "Black Friday", a song by Megadeth
• "Black Friday Rule", a title of a song by Flogging Molly
• "Black Friday", the nickname for game 3 of the 1977 NLCS baseball championships. Philadelphia Phillies fans gave the nickname because the Phillies blew an early lead against the Los Angeles Dodgers and a controversial call was made during the game
• "Black Friday", the title of a poem written by Dennis Rader, the BTK killer

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As a matter of fact, when search for black days, you would get a list for black monday, black tuesday .... black sunday. But black friday has the most numerous list of all the 7 days of the week.