Black Friday

In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are 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 (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

Other meanings 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 (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 Rule" is the title of a song by Flogging Molly
"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.

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