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| *], a disastrous attack by the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 Oct) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt. | *], a disastrous attack by the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 Oct) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt. | ||
| *], an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 Feb), the largest over Norway. | *], an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 Feb), the largest over Norway. | ||
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Black Friday is a term used to refer to certain events which occur on a Friday. It has been used in the following cases:
- Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal (24 Sep), a financial crisis in the United States.
- Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster: 189 fishermen died.
- Haymarket affair (11 November 1887), four Chicago anarchists hanged, without evidence, for the deaths of seven police officers during a labor meeting.
- Black Friday (1910), a campaign outside the British House of Commons (18 Nov) of the Women's Social and Political Union the Conciliation Bill which failed.
- Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square (31 Jan), a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders (15 Apr) not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners.
- Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires (13 Jan) in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people.
- Black Friday (1942), Air attack on Dartmouth, Devon, September 18 1942.
- Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 Oct) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt.
- Black Friday (1945), an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 Feb), the largest over Norway.
- Hollywood Black Friday (5 October 1945), a riot at the Warner Bros. studios stemming from a Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU.
- The 1950 Red River Flood, which burst several dikes flooding much of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Black Friday (1977), Game Three of the 1977 National League Championship Series in Major League Baseball, in which the Philadelphia Phillies lost a two-run lead to the Los Angeles Dodgers with two outs in the ninth inning and no runners on base.
- Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran (8 Sep).
- 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak/The Barrie Tornado, (May 31, 1985).
- Edmonton Tornado (July 31, 1987), a tornado touching down in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- Black Friday (Maldives) (2004), a crackdown in Malé, Maldives (13 Aug) on peaceful protesters.
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (October 3, 2008) Bailout of U.S. financial system.
- Black Friday (2005), Tribal students killed in Meghalaya, India.
See also
- Black Friday for other uses
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