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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 September), 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 November) of the Women's Social and Political Union the Conciliation Bill which failed.
• Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square (31 January), a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders (15 April) not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners.
• Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires (13 January) in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people.
• Black Friday (1942), air attack on Dartmouth, Devon, 18 September 1942.
• Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 October) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt.
• Black Friday (1945), an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 February), 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.
• The cancellation of Avro Arrow (1959), which resulted in massive layoffs in the Canadian Aerospace industry.
• Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• Black Friday (1963), the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963.
• 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 September).
• 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak/The Barrie Tornado, (31 May 1985).
• Edmonton Tornado (31 July 1987), a tornado touching down in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Black Friday (Maldives) (2004), a crackdown in Malé, Maldives (13 August) on peaceful protesters.
• Black Friday (2005), Tribal students killed in Meghalaya, India.

See also

• Black Friday for other uses

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