Black Friday

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Black Friday may refer to:

• Black Friday (shopping), the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, one of the busiest shopping days of the year
• Black Friday (1940 film), a science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges, and Bela Lugosi
• Black Friday (2004 film), a Hindi film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, directed by Anurag Kashyap
• "Black Friday Rule", a song by Flogging Molly
• "Black Friday", a song by Steely Dan
• "Black Friday", a song by Megadeth

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 (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 (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 over Norway
• Hollywood Black Friday (5 Oct 1945), 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 (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 (Maldives) (2004), a crackdown in Maldives, Malé (13 Aug) on peaceful protesters

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