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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight [2] or even on Thanksgiving. Some stores' sales continue to Monday ("Cyber Monday") or for a week ("Cyber Week").
Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square, a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland. Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners. Black Friday bushfires (1939), day of devastating bush fires in Victoria, Australia.
Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires (13 January) in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people. Black Friday (1942), an air raid on Dartmouth, Devon (18 September). Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 October) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt.
Friday Black is the 2018 debut book by author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. The collection of short stories explores themes surrounding black identity as it relates to a range of contemporary social issues. The stories are set in a variety of twisted near-future and dystopian settings. The book received an overall positive reception, including the ...
Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the Friday before Christmas Eve (24 December)—that is, the Friday after 16 December—in Great Britain . It is the most popular night for end-of-year corporate and industrial Christmas parties, which consequently makes it one of the busiest nights in the year for ...
The Black Friday is the term for a gold panic on September 24, 1869, which triggered a financial crisis in the United States. It was the result of a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould, later joined by his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of ...
Black Friday (1978) Black Friday ( Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized : Jom'e-ye Siyāh) is the name given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, [9] in which 64, [1] or at least 100 [10] [11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square ( Persian ...
South Park. ) " Black Friday " is the seventh episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 244th episode of the series overall, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on November 13, 2013. The episode is the first of a three-episode story arc, which continues with "A Song of Ass and ...