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  2. Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia

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    Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day. 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 ...

  3. Black Friday - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of Black Fridays - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    The original "Black Friday" was almost certainly not considered a holiday. According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, ...

  6. Black Friday (Tom Odell song) - Wikipedia

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    "Black Friday" is a song by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 22 September 2023 as the lead single from his sixth studio album of the same title . Upon release, it reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the Irish Singles Chart .

  7. Katy Lied - Wikipedia

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    "Black Friday", which features Michael Omartian on piano and David Paich on Hohner electric piano and was released as the first single from the album, relates the story of a crooked speculator who makes his fortune and absconds to Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, as, according to Fagen, "It was the place most far away from LA we could think of".

  8. Black Friday (hoax) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Friday hoax is an internet hoax about the origin of the term " Black Friday ." The term denotes the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, a day that traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. [ 1] A 2018 viral Facebook post made the false claim that the name derives from a day when slave traders sold ...

  9. Black Friday Origin: Why Is It Called 'Black Friday'? - AOL

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    Black Friday began in Philadelphia in the early 1950s. Ahead of the big Saturday Army-Navy football game, suburbanites would head into the city for the game and crowd the city.