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  2. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    By the 1980s, the phrase began spreading nationwide, with retailers in every city setting their biggest deals for the day after Thanksgiving. Things completely took off from there, and now Black ...

  3. Black Friday Origin: Why Is It Called 'Black Friday'? - AOL

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    The History Channel adds, "Though it's true that retail companies use to record losses in red and profits in black when doing their accounting, this version of Black Friday's origin is the ...

  4. Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Why is Black Friday called Black Friday? Looking at the ... - AOL

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    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. ... The idea for the current meaning of Black Friday ...

  6. Friday the 13th - Wikipedia

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    The shortest period that occurs with a Friday the 13th is just one month, from February to March in a common year starting on Thursday (D) (e.g. 2009, 2015 and 2026). On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 days. Friday the 13ths occurs with an average frequency of 1.7218 per year or about 3477 since the year 1 CE.

  7. Black Friday: a brief history of madness and discounts - Engadget

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    Let's start with the modern definition: "Black Friday" is the day immediately following the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States, which falls on the fourth Thursday of November. It's a ...

  8. Black Friday (1869) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Do you know about Black Friday? No, not that one. The day ...

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    Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that ...