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Black Friday may refer to:
Events
Recurring days
- Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom
- Good Friday or Black Friday, day of Christian observance in commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion
Single days
- Black Friday (1869), the Fisk–Gould Scandal, a US financial crisis
- Black Friday (1873), the crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange that precipitated the Panic of 1873
- Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth, Scotland disaster in which 189 fishermen died
- Black Friday (1910), day of police brutality on women's suffrage activists in England
- Black Friday (1916), October 20, the day a "perfect storm" hit Lake Erie in North America, sinking four ships
- 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 (1944), disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt
- Black Friday (1945), Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II
- 1950 Red River flood or Black Friday flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow and Orenda Iroquois engine programs in Malton, Ontario, Canada
- Black Friday (1960), San Francisco protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
- Black Friday (1978), massacre of protesters in Iran
- Viernes Negro (1983), the first major currency devaluation in Venezuela
- Edmonton tornado or Black Friday (1987), the day a tornado struck Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 1988 killings in Hyderabad, Sindh or Black Friday, a massacre of Mohajir civilians in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
- Black Friday (1993):
- Black Friday (2004), crackdown by government forces on peaceful protesters in Malé, Maldives
- Black Friday (2005), event in which tribal students were killed in Meghalaya, India
- Black Friday (2011) (April 15), when the indictment of three online poker companies was unsealed in United States v. Scheinberg
- Black Friday (2015):
Films
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Music
Albums
Mixtapes
Songs and singles
Television
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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