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Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized: Jom'e-ye Siyāh) was an incident on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran [9] in which at least 64 [1] and at most more than 100 [10][11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Imperial Iranian Army in Jaleh Square (Persian: میدان ژاله, romanized ...
The first widely-recorded Black Friday death occurred in 2008, when a Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death. More than 2,000 shoppers stampeded into the store at Green Acres ...
"Good Mourning/Black Friday" is a two-piece song, which begins with an instrumental section called "Good Mourning". [2] The first section starts with a clean intro, highlighted by a melodic guitar solo played by Chris Poland. [3][4] Lyrically, Mustaine has described the second part, "Black Friday", as being about "a homicidal madman who goes on a killing spree". [5] With an excessive use of ...
It was after Kennedy's death that the term Black Friday began to be associated with crowds of holiday shoppers. Before it was adopted by retailers in the mid-1980s, traffic officials in New York ...
Black Sunday has been used to describe January 23, 2005, when three firefighters of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in two fires: two at a tenement fire in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, with four others being seriously injured, and one at a house fire in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
At least in theory! Reporting on data from Mastercard SpendingPulse, CNN states that in-store and online retail sales saw a 3.4% increase on Black Friday in 2024, compared to the year prior.
Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States [3][4][5] and retailers prioritize it and Cyber Monday as highly profitable holiday shopping days. [6] The concept has since globalized, with countries around the world adopting "Black Friday" sales to mimic the US phenomenon, adjusting local customs or creating similar ...
James Fisk Jr. (April 1, 1835 – January 7, 1872), known variously as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim" – was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Though Fisk was admired by the working class of New York and the Erie Railroad, he achieved much ill-fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where ...