Friday, 13th Jan 2006

In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are thus known as Black Friday:
Black Friday (1869) - a financial crisis in the United States
Black Friday - (1912) - WSPU took militant action when the Conciliation Bill failed.
Black Friday (1929) - a stock market crash in the US
Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest
Black Friday (1921) - day on which British dockers' and railwaymen's union leaders announced their decision not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia
Black Friday (1945) - Largest air battle over Norway, over Sunnfjord
Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
Black Friday (1982) - known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War
Black Friday (2004) - a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé

Other uses of the term include:

Black Friday — a name used for any Friday which falls on the 13th of a month.
Black Friday - the Friday preceding Easter, also known as Good Friday or God Friday.
Black Friday (shopping) - the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Black Friday (1940 film) - science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges and Bela Lugosi.
Black Friday (2005 film) - an unreleased film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai
"Black Friday" is the title of a song by Steely Dan
"Black Friday" is the title of a song by Megadeth
"Black Friday Rule" is the title of a song by Flogging Molly
"Black Friday" is the title of a poem written by Dennis Rader, the BTK killer.
"Black Friday" is the name given to the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom. It is a day when widespread anti-social behaviour due to public alcohol consumption is expected to occur, and police are given additional powers to combat it.