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
• Good Friday or Black Friday, a Christian observance in commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion

Single days

• Black Friday (1869), the Fisk–Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
• Black Friday (1873), the crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange that precipitated the Panic of 1873
• Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster in which 189 fishermen died
• Haymarket affair (1887) (11 November 1887), four Chicago anarchists hanged, without evidence, for the deaths of seven police officers during a labor meeting, they were 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 (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), Cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow program and Orenda Iroquois program in Malton, Ontario, Canada
• Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City 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, referred to as Black Friday in the community for the 1987 day an F4 tornado struck Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 1988 Hyderabad, Sindh massacre or Black Friday, a massacre of Mohajir civilians in Hyderabad, Sindh
• Black Friday (1993), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
• Black Friday (2004), a crackdown by government forces in Malé, Maldives, on peaceful protesters
• Black Friday (2005), an event in which tribal students were killed in Meghalaya, India
• United States v. Scheinberg, referred to as Black Friday in the poker community, the 2011 day when several online poker sites were seized
• 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, 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 (Muchamore novel), a 2013 CHERUB novel by Robert Muchamore
• Black Friday (Patterson novel), a 1986 novel by James Patterson

Music

Albums

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

Mixtapes

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

Songs

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

Television

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

Theatre

• Black Friday (musical), a 2019 musical by StarKid Productions

Other uses

• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, a 2016 video game by iNK Stories

See also

• Bloody Friday (disambiguation)
• Black Monday
• List of Black Fridays