1) Buzzword 2) December observance 3) Famous Wall Street panic 4) Thanksgiving follower 5) Unofficial observance 6) What follows Thanksgiving
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[1869] Black Friday, September 24, 1869 was caused by two speculators’ efforts, Jay Gould and James Fisk, to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.{fact|date=November 2013} It was one of several scandals that rocked{ambiguous|date=August 2014} the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. ==History== During the reconstruction era aft...
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[1910] Black Friday was a women`s suffrage event that occurred in the United Kingdom on 18 November 1910. The protests came in response to parliamentary proceedings regarding the Conciliation Bill, which would extend the right of women to vote in Britain and Ireland to around 1,000,000 wealthy, property-owning women. The bill made it to a s...
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[1919] Based on a Wikimedia commons image. I did some work and uploaded it with a (not to scale) map and not the best markings. But should do the job of explaining the areas of the operation gibraltar. ...
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[1939] The Black Friday fires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, are considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world. Almost 20,000 km² (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed and the Royal Commission that resulted from it led to major changes ...
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[1944] Black Friday was the nickname given by 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during World War II`s Battle of the Scheldt in The Netherlands near Hoogerheide, the regiment attacked German positions on a raised railway embankment across 1,200 yards of open beet field...
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[1945] On 9 February 1945, a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered heavy casualties during an unsuccessful attack on German Destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels; the operation was labelled `Black Friday` by the surviving Allied aircrew. The German ships were sheltering in a strong defensive position in Førde Fjord, Norway, f...
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[1978] Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه / Jome-ye Siaah) is the name given to 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) and the shootings in Zhaleh (or Jaleh) Square in Tehran, Iran. The deaths and the reaction to them has been described as a pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution when any `hope for compromise` between the protest mo...
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[1982] People from Gloucester County, Virginia. ...
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[Flogging Molly song] CD2 of Amy Winehouse`s You Know I`m No Good single ...
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[Lil` Kim mixtape] Black Friday is the second mixtape by American hip hop recording artist Lil` Kim, released on February 14, 2011 through PayPal. The title track is a response to Nicki Minaj`s song `Roman`s Revenge`. The mixtape also contains the track `Grindin’ Makin’ Money,` a collaboration which features rapper Birdman and Nicki Min...
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[Maldives] Black Friday (Dhivehi: ކަޅު ހުކުރު), Friday, August 13, 2004, was the crackdown by the Maldivian National Security Service (NSS) — later Maldivian National Defence Force — on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé. This unplanned and unorganized demonstration was the largest such protest in the co...
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[South Park] `Black Friday` is the seventh episode of the seventeenth season of South Park, and the 244th episode of the series overall. It is the first episode of a three-episode story arc, and premiered in the United States on Comedy Central on November 13, 2013. The plot, which employs themes and motifs from the TV series Game of Thrones...
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[partying] Black Friday is the last Friday before Christmas. In the United Kingdom, Black Friday is traditionally the most popular night for office Christmas parties. As a result it has gained a reputation as one of the busiest nights of the year for restaurants, public houses, and, as a result, the emergency services. In Cumbria and the no...
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[shopping] Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing ...
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• 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.
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in U.S. history, Sept. 24, 1869, when plummeting gold prices precipitated a securities market panic. The crash was a consequence of an attempt by ... [2 related articles]
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A precipitous drop in a financial market . The original Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869, when prospectors attempted to corner the gold market.
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24 September 1869, a day on which Jay Gould (1836-1892) and James Fisk (1834-1872), stock manipulators, attempted to corner the gold market by trying to prevent the government from selling gold....
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A precipitous drop in a financial market . The original Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869,
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Black Friday 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.
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Black Friday was the name given to a commercial panic in London on the 11th May 1866 through the stoppage of Overend, Gurney and Co. who were committed to trial for conspiracy to defraud. On Friday 21st November 1890 a temporary panic was produced by the embarrassments of the Baring Brothers.
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The busiest shopping day of the year. It traditionally falls on the Friday that immediately follows the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. It is considered to be the first official day of the Christmas shopping season. Exceptional sales and deals are traditionally offered by retailers on this day.
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