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Black Friday (1945) On 9 February 1945, a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered many losses during an attack on the German destroyer Z33 and its escorting vessels; the operation was called Black Friday by the survivors. The German ships were sheltering in a strong defensive position in Førde Fjord, Norway, forcing the Allied ...
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States.It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight [2] or even on Thanksgiving.
9 February – Black Friday: a large air battle between German and British aircraft over Sunnfjord. It was the largest aerial clash over Norway during World War II. [1] [2] 7 May – Knut Hamsun released his obituary of Adolf Hitler. 8 May – The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany ended as German forces agreed to an unconditional surrender.
On 19 July 2024, Belgian producer and DJ Lost Frequencies released his remix of "Black Friday", titled "Black Friday (Pretty Like the Sun)" through UROK and Lost & Cie Music SPRL. The remix reached the top 10 in Flanders and the Netherlands, as well as the top 40 in Austria, Wallonia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and Switzerland.
Operation Doomsday. In Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division acted as a police and military force during the Allied occupation of Norway in May 1945, immediately after the victory in Europe during the Second World War. The division maintained law and order until the arrival of the remainder of Force 134, the occupation force.
Black Friday was the nickname given by the 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during World War II's Battle of the Scheldt in The Netherlands, the regiment attacked German positions on a raised railway embankment near the village of Hoogerheide after advancing across 1,200 yards of open beet fields.
Arbeidernes dag, International Workers' Day, Labour Day. 17 May. Constitution Day. Grunnlovsdagen. Celebration of the Constitution of 1814. Moveable Thursday. Ascension Day. Kristi himmelfartsdag. 39 days after Easter.
Liberation of Finnmark. The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany. It began with a Soviet offensive that liberated Kirkenes.