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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 ...
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), when the indictment of three online poker companies was unsealed in United States v. Scheinberg
List of Black Fridays Black Friday is a term used to refer to certain events which occur on a Friday. It has been used in the following cases:
The Black Friday etymology 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 slaves at a discount. The term actually ...
Black Friday (1869) Photograph of the blackboard in the New York Gold Room, September 24, 1869, showing the collapse of the price of gold. Handwritten caption by James A. Garfield indicates it was used as evidence before the Committee of Banking & Currency during hearings in 1870.
Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the Friday before Christmas Eve (24 December)—that is, the Friday after 16 December—in Great Britain.
Cyber Black Friday is a marketing term for the online version of Black Friday, [1] the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in a 2009 press release entitled "Black Friday Goes Online for Cyber Black Friday". [2]
Hollywood Black Friday, or Hollywood Bloody Friday, [1] is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945. On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Bros. ' studios in Burbank ...