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The panic, which became known as Black Friday, 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 President Ulysses S. Grant.
However, in 2008 Congress passed a law signed by President Bush that made the Friday after Thanksgiving or "Black Friday" the National Native American Heritage Day". [5] This was the first nationally appointed day for Native Americans and was huge for their culture. Donald Trump in 2020 made an annual proclamation for Native American Heritage ...
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: میدان ژاله, romanized: Meydān-e Jāleh) in Tehran.
The Black Nazarene (Spanish: El Nazareno Negro; Filipino: Poóng Itím na Nazareno [1]) is a life-sized dark statue of Jesus Christ carrying the True Cross.The venerated image is enshrined in the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines.
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum.It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday).
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Super Saturday (Panic Saturday), Cyber Monday, Green Monday, Giving Tuesday, and Economics of Christmas Small Business Saturday is a marketing initiative created and promoted by American Express to encourage holiday shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in the United States , during one of the ...
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.
The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were part of the devastating 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia, which saw bushfires burning for the whole summer, and ash falling as far away as New Zealand. It was calculated that three-quarters of the State of Victoria was directly or indirectly affected by the ...