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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 as early as midnight [2] or even on Thanksgiving.
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.
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 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.
Some explanations of Black Friday claim that the holiday references a 19th-century term for the day after Thanksgiving, during which plantation owners could buy slaves at discount prices. This ...
Anti-consumerism. Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November. [1] [2]
The term “Black Friday” was first used in relation to a 19th-century financial crisis. Wall Street financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk attempted to corner the gold market and failed after their conspiracy was derailed. On Friday the 24th of September 1869, the gold market crashed and caused the stock market to suffer losses affecting ...
Black Friday wouldn't come to mean a day of shopping until nearly a century after its first reference to the U.S. gold market crash in 1869. In the 1950s, police in Philadelphia used the term to ...