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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.
According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and stock fraud caused the U.S. gold market to collapse entirely.
That's right—Black Friday originally started in the 1950s in Philadelphia, PA when suburban shoppers would flock to the city ahead of the Army-Navy football game every Saturday. The city...
Black Friday wasn't always about shopping though. Here's how it started and how it became the kick-off to the holiday shopping season.
Black Friday ( Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized : Jom'e-ye Siyāh) is the name given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, [9] in which 64, [1] or at least 100 [10] [11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square ( Persian: میدان ژاله ...
The Black Friday hoax is historical claim 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.
Black Friday wouldn't come to mean a day of shopping until nearly a century after its first reference to the U.S. gold market crash in 1869.
Repetitive events[edit] Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas. Black Friday (shopping), the Friday after U.S. Thanksgiving Day, when shopping is extremely popular and traditionally the start of Christmas shopping. Good Friday or Black Friday, a Christian observance of Jesus' crucifixion.
Here's what you need to know about Black Friday's history and where things stand in 2023.
The Black Friday is the term for a gold panic on September 24, 1869, which triggered a financial crisis in the United States. It was the result of a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould, later joined by his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of ...
