Black Friday

Black Friday may refer to:

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  • 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
  • Haymarket affair (11 November 1887), four Chicago, US anarchists hanged for the deaths of seven police officers, later rehabilitated in 1893
  • Black Friday (1910), a day of police brutality on women's suffrage activists in England
  • Black Friday (1916), October 20, a day in which 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
  • Italian invasion of Albania or Black Friday, the 1939 Italian invasion of Albania
  • Black Friday bushfires (1939), a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia
  • Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt
  • Black Friday (1945), an Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II
  • 1950 Red River flood or Black Friday, a flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow and engine programs in Malton, Ontario, Canada
  • Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City, US, protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
  • Black Friday (1978), a 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), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
  • Black Friday (2004), a crackdown by government forces on peaceful protesters in Malé, Maldives
  • Black Friday (2005), an 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), a string of terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia

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