Black Friday

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Black Friday may refer to:

Events

Recurring days

• Black Friday (shopping), the day following Thanksgiving in the United States

• Black Friday (hoax), online hoax about the origin of the name

• Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom
• Good Friday or Black Friday, day of Christian observance in commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion

Single days

• 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
• 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 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
• Black Friday bushfires (1939), day of devastating bush fires in Victoria, Australia
• Black Friday (1944), disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt
• Black Friday (1945), Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II
• 1950 Red River flood or Black Friday flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow and Orenda Iroquois engine programs in Malton, Ontario, Canada
• Black Friday (1960), San Francisco protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
• Black Friday (1978), 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), series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
• 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), April 15, when the indictment of three online poker companies was unsealed in United States v. Scheinberg
• Black Friday (2015), string of terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia

Films

• Black Friday (1916 film), American feature film starring Dorothy Davenport and Emory Johnson
• Black Friday (1940 film), American film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
• Black Friday Incident, 1993 disastrous screening of Toy Story for Disney executives
• Black Friday (2002 film), action movie starring Gary Daniels
• Black Friday (2004 film), Indian film about the 1993 Bombay bombings
• Black Friday, 2007 cable television movie directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
• Black Friday, 2009 Canadian short film starring Jeff Hammond
• Black Friday (2021 film), American horror comedy film directed by Casey Tebo

Literature

• Black Friday (Patterson novel), a 1986 novel by James Patterson
• Black Friday (Muchamore novel), a 2013 CHERUB novel by Robert Muchamore

Music

Albums

• Black Friday (Indian Ocean album) (2005)
• Black Friday (Faderhead album) (2010)
• Black Friday (Tom Odell album) (2024)
• Black Friday, a Palehound album (2019)

Mixtapes

• Black Friday (Tony Yayo mixtape) (2008)
• Black Friday (Jay Rock mixtape) (2010)
• Black Friday (Lil' Kim mixtape) (2011)

Songs and singles

• "Black Friday", Steely Dan song from their 1975 album Katy Lied
• "Good Mourning/Black Friday", 1986 song by Megadeth from Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
• "Black Friday", 1998 song by Grinspoon from Pushing Buttons
• "Black Friday", 2013 song by Stray from the Path from Anonymous
• "Black Friday" (Gwar single album), 2016 single by thrash metal band Gwar

Television

• "Black Friday" (South Park), 2013 episode of South Park
• "Black Friday" (Scream Queens), 2015 episode of Scream Queens

Other uses

• Black Friday (musical), 2019 musical produced by StarKid Productions
• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, 2016 video game by iNK Stories

See also

• Bloody Friday (disambiguation)
• Friday the 13th (disambiguation)
• Black Day (disambiguation)
• List of Black Fridays

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