Black Friday
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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 stock market crash in the United States
- 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 (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 - a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé
Other uses of the term include:
- 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 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
