In finance, Black Friday commonly refers the September 24th 1869 financial crisis...
Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.
a retail sales term used to describe the Friday after Thanksgiving... traditionally a big selling day for the retail world... originated as a description of the day in the year when a retailer begins to profit or "be in the black".
September 24, 1869, the day the markets crashed following a failed attempt by some financiers to corner the gold market. Led to a depression.
A precipitous drop in a financial market . The original Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869, when prospectors attempted to corner the gold market.
Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year.
A reference to a day during which the markets sell off dramatically, the original one falling on Friday, September 24, 1869 when an attempt to corner the gold market led to an economic depression.
The day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.
Black Friday, September 24, 1869, also known as the Fisk-Gould Scandal, was a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
Black Friday was a series of mass protests that occurred on September 8, 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) in Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, declared martial law in response to protests against his rule. The military of Iran used deadly force, including tanks and helicopter gunships, to break up the largely peaceful demonstrators.
The Black Friday fires of January 13, 1939, in Victoria, Australia, are considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and most certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected. Almost 20,000 km² (4,942,000 acres) of land were burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed, and the Royal Commission that resulted from it led to major changes in forest management. Over 700 homes and 69 sawmills were burnt and a total of 1,300 buildings were destroyed.
Black Friday (Dhivehi: Þ†Þ¦Þ…Þª Þ€ÞªÞ†ÞªÞƒÞª), August 13, 2004, was the crackdown by the Maldivian National Security Service (NSS) — later Maldivian National Defence Force — on a peaceful protesthttp://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGASA290042004 http://news.amnesty.org Nature of demonstration as defined by Amnesty in the capital city of Maldives, Malé. This unplanned and unorganized demonstration was the largest such protest in the country's history. Beginning on the evening of August 12, 2004, the demonstration grew and continued until it was forcefully ended on the afternoon of August 13, 2004.
Black Friday is an Indian movie about the 1993 Mumbai bombings. Based on a book by S. Hussain Zaidi, this film tries to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them.
Black Friday, in British labour history, refers to 15 April 1921, when the leaders of transport and rail unions announced a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners. The epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners.
Black Friday is a 1940 science fiction film starring Boris Karloff.
Black Friday is used to refer to the air battle waged between German and British aircraft over Norway on 9 February 1945. A number of warships of the Kriegsmarine entered the Førdefjorden to avoid British reconnaissance aircraft. However, they were spotted by the British and subsequently British planes took off from Scotland to sink the German ships.
Black Friday was an event on 18 November 1910 when approximately 300 suffragettes campaigned outside the British House of Commons when the Liberal government of Herbert Asquith failed to pass a Conciliation Bill which would allow some women to vote in General Elections for the first time.
Official MySpace http://www.babygaligo.com/blackfriday.html Baby Galigo FilmsBlack Friday is a new Holiday-themed comedy from writer/director James Zahn. Not much is known other than the fact that a 2008 release is likely.
Black Friday was the nickname given by The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during the Battle of the Scheldt, the regiment attacked over 1,200 yards of Belgian open beet fields and suffered 145 casualties, including 56 dead. The battle is described in detail in the book The Long Left Flank by Jeffery Williams.
