Black Friday
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Black Friday may refer to:
Events
Recurring days
- Mad Friday, the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom
- Black Friday (shopping), the day following Thanksgiving in the United States
- Good Friday or Black Friday, a Christian observance of Jesus' crucifixion
- Friday the 13th, in some Western countries
Single days
- Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
- Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster in which 189 fishermen died
- Black Friday (1910), a particularly violent women's suffrage event in England
- 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 (1939), a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia
- Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt
- Black Friday (1945), an Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II
- Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
- Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran
- Black Friday (1987), a tornado in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Black Friday (1993), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
- Black Friday (Maldives), a 2004 crackdown by government forces in Malé, Maldives, on peaceful protesters
- Black Friday (2005), an event in which tribal students were killed in Meghalaya, India
- Black Friday (2011), an event in which several online poker sites were seized as a result of United States v. Scheinberg et al.
- Black Friday (2015), a string of terrorist attacks on June 26, 2015 in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia
Film and television
- Black Friday (1940 film), an American film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
- Black Friday (2004 film), an Indian film about the 1993 Bombay bombings
- Black Friday (2009 film), a Canadian short film starring Jeff Hammond
- "Black Friday" (South Park), a 2013 episode of South Park
Literature
- Black Friday (Muchamore novel), a 2013 CHERUB novel by Robert Muchamore
- Black Friday (Patterson novel), a 1986 novel by James Patterson
Music
- Black Friday (Faderhead album)
- Black Friday (Indian Ocean album)
- Black Friday (Jay Rock mixtape)
- Black Friday (Lil' Kim mixtape)
- "Black Friday" (Steely Dan song), a 1975 song by Steely Dan from Katy Lied
- "Good Mourning/Black Friday", a 1986 song by Megadeth from Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
See also
- "Black Friday Rule", a song by Flogging Molly
- List of Black Fridays
- Black Monday
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