Black Friday

Black Friday may refer to:

Events

Recurring days

• Black Friday (shopping), the day following Thanksgiving in the United States
• Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom
• Friday the 13th or Black Friday, considered an unlucky day in Western superstition
• Good Friday or Black Friday, a Christian observance in commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion

Single days

• Black Friday (1869), the Fisk–Gould Scandal, a US financial crisis
• Black Friday (1873), the crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange that precipitated the Panic of 1873
• Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth, Scotland disaster in which 189 fishermen died
• Haymarket affair (11 November 1887), four Chicago, US anarchists hanged for the deaths of seven police officers, later rehabilitated in 1893
• Black Friday (1910), a day of police brutality on women's suffrage activists in England
• Black Friday (1916), October 20, a day in which a "perfect storm" hit Lake Erie in North America, sinking four ships
• 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
• Italian invasion of Albania or Black Friday, the 1939 Italian invasion of Albania
• Black Friday bushfires (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
• 1950 Red River flood or Black Friday, a flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow and engine programs in Malton, Ontario, Canada
• Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City, US, protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
• Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran
• Viernes Negro (1983), the first major currency devaluation in Venezuela
• Edmonton tornado or Black Friday (1987), the day a tornado struck Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 1988 killings in Hyderabad, Sindh or Black Friday, a massacre of Mohajir civilians in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
• Black Friday (1993), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
• Black Friday (2004), a crackdown by government forces on peaceful protesters in Malé, Maldives
• Black Friday (2005), an event in which tribal students were killed in Meghalaya, India
• Black Friday (2011), April 15, when the indictment of three online poker companies was unsealed in United States v. Scheinberg
• Black Friday (2015), a string of terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia

Films

• Black Friday (1916 film), an American feature film starring Dorothy Davenport and Emory Johnson
• Black Friday (1940 film), an American film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
• Black Friday Incident, a 1993 screening of the first half of Toy Story for Disney executives resulting in a temporary production shutdown
• Black Friday (2002 film), action movie starring Gary Daniels
• Black Friday (2004 film), an Indian film about the 1993 Bombay bombings
• Black Friday, a 2007 cable television movie directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
• Black Friday, a 2009 Canadian short film starring Jeff Hammond
• Black Friday (2021 film), an American film directed by Casey Tebo

Literature

• Black Friday (Patterson novel), a 1986 novel by James Patterson
• Black Friday (Muchamore novel), a 2013 CHERUB novel by Robert Muchamore

Music

Albums

• Black Friday (Indian Ocean album) (2005)
• Black Friday (Faderhead album) (2010)
• Black Friday, a Palehound album (2019)

Mixtapes

• Black Friday (Tony Yayo mixtape) (2008)
• Black Friday (Jay Rock mixtape) (2010)
• Black Friday (Lil' Kim mixtape) (2011)

Songs

• "Black Friday", a Steely Dan song from their 1975 album Katy Lied
• "Good Mourning/Black Friday", a 1986 song by Megadeth from Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
• "Black Friday", a 1998 song by Grinspoon from Pushing Buttons
• "Black Friday", a 2013 song by Stray from the Path from Anonymous
• Black Friday (Gwar single) (2016)

Television

• "Black Friday" (South Park), a 2013 episode of South Park
• "Black Friday" (Scream Queens), a 2015 episode of Scream Queens

Other uses

• Black Friday (musical), a 2019 musical produced by StarKid Productions
• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, a 2016 video game by iNK Stories

See also

• Bloody Friday (disambiguation)
• Friday the 13th (disambiguation)
• Black Day (disambiguation)
• List of Black Fridays