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Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires (13 January) in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people. Black Friday (1942), an air raid on Dartmouth, Devon (18 September). Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 October) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt.
The Black Friday hoax is an internet hoax about the origin of the term "Black Friday". The term denotes the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States , a day that traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. [ 1 ]
Black Friday began in Philadelphia in the early 1950s. Ahead of the big Saturday Army-Navy football game, suburbanites would head into the city for the game and crowd the city.
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The first widely-recorded Black Friday death occurred in 2008, when a Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death. More than 2,000 shoppers stampeded into the store at Green Acres ...
Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States [3] [4] [5] and retailers prioritize it and Cyber Monday as highly profitable holiday shopping days. [6] The concept has since globalized, with countries around the world adopting "Black Friday" sales to mimic the US phenomenon, adjusting local customs or creating similar ...
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Black Friday (1945), Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II 1950 Red River flood or Black Friday flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Black Friday (1959), the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow and Orenda Iroquois engine programs in Malton, Ontario, Canada