Diana asked a question in a PM that made me start thinking about he origins of Black Friday, a slightly demented shopping day that we in the U.S. go through after Thanksgiving. I understand it's spreading to other parts of the world; kind of like a plague. That made me wonder if perhaps there was a Black day for every day of the week. Turns out there is, and in most cases more than one for each day of the week.
So, in the celebration of this non-historic Black day, I'll bend the purpose of this thread just a tiny bit and include a week (plus) of black days. All with links to the source, Wikipedia.
Black Monday: Black Monday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Historic Events
* Black Monday, Dublin, 1209 – when a group of 500 recently arrived settlers from Bristol were massacred by warriors of the Gaelic O'Byrne clan. The group had left the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, when they were attacked without warning. Although now a relatively obscure event in history, it was commemorated by a mustering of the Mayor, Sheriffs and soldiers on the day as a challenge to the native tribes for centuries afterwards.[1]
* Black Monday, 14 April 1360 – the army of Edward III during the Hundred Years' War was struck by hailstorms, lightning and panic, causing considerable loss of life on Easter Monday.
* Black Monday, 27 February 1865 – a "sirocco" wind brought sandstorms to Melbourne, Australia affecting Sandhurst and Castlemaine.
* Black Monday, 8 February 1886 – when a major protest over unemployment led to a riot in Pall Mall, London.
* Black Monday, December 10, 1894 – when both banks of Newfoundland, Britain’s oldest colony, had closed their doors, thus rendering that colony’s main medium of exchange worthless.
* Black Monday, 28 October 1929 – a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
* Black Monday, 27 May 1935 – US Supreme Court Justices overturned multiple Acts including National Industrial Recovery Act.
* Black Monday, September 19, 1977 – when Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, one of America's largest regional steel manufacturing firms, announced that it would shut down most of its operations in the vicinity of Youngstown, Ohio, placing 5,000 people out of work. This development presaged the collapse of that community's industrial economy, from which it still hasn't recovered (as of 2010).
* Black Monday, 27 November 1978 - when former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White assassinated Mayor George Moscone and current Supervisor Harvey Milk.
* Black Monday, Malta, 15 October 1979 – the offices of The Times of Malta were set on fire during a political rally. It was also on this day that supporters of theMalta Labour Party broke into the house of Dr. Edward Fenech Adami.
* Black Monday, 19 October 1987 – the largest one-day percentage decline in recorded stock market history.
* Black Monday, or Al Aqsa Massacre, 8 October 1990.
* Black Moday Stock Market Crash at Dalal Street, Mumbai, India. May 17, 2004
* Black Monday, 20 July 2009 – Only 330 of the 1,260 of the Berlin S-Bahn's train cars were good for operation.[2] Earlier in the month 380 (30.2%) train cars were removed, making the total removed on 20 July was at 550 (43.7%).[2] Only 26.2% of the train cars were available on 20 July 2009.
* Black Monday, 8 August 2011, US and global stock markets crashed following the Friday night credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's of the United States sovereign debt from AAA, or "risk free", to AA+. By market close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 634.76 points (-5.55%) to close at 10,809.85, the NASDAQ Composite Index fall 174.72 points (-6.90%) closing at 2,357.69, the S&P 500 Index shed 79.92 points (-6.66%), and the New York Stock Exchange lost an astounding 523.02 points (-7.05%), finishing the day at 6,896.05. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ Composite Index ended the day at their session lows.
Recurring Events
* The day following the final Sunday of the National Football League season (Week 17) in which coaches and administration are fired or resign their position.[3][4][5] The term is also attributed to the day following the annual NFL Draft where players' contracts may be terminated once new players are added to a roster.[6]
* The Monday of Match Week when United States 4th year medical students find out if but not where they matched to a residency position through the National Resident Matching Program.
* Events described by both the Late-2000s recession and the Late-2000s financial crisis
* An old schoolboys' nickname for the first Monday after the holidays.[7]
Black Tuesday: Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Wall Street Crash of 1929
Black Wednesday: Black Wednesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Britain was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate mechanism.
Black Thursday: Black Thursday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* February 6, 1851, Black Thursday, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia
* September 18, 1873, during the Panic of 1873 when the U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures[1]
* October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange. "Black Tuesday" was the following week on October 29, 1929.
* August 15, 1940, Schwarzer Donnerstag ("Black Thursday"), when the German Luftwaffe mounted its largest number of sorties during the Battle of Britain, and suffered its heaviest losses; known in Britain as "The Greatest Day".
* October 14, 1943, when the Allied air forces suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
* The night of 16/17 December 1943, when RAF Bomber Command losses during the Berlin bombing campaign were particularly high due to combat losses and bad weather over home airfields
* September 1, 1960, a disastrous day for American track and field favourites in the Olympic stadium at the 1960 Rome Olympics
* January 22, 1987, the Mendiola massacre took place in Mendiola Street, Manila, Philippines on January 22, 1987, in which state security forces violently dispersed a farmers' march to Malacañan Palace
* August 24, 1995, when the Moscow interbank credit market collapsed[2]
* February 8, 1996, the Black World Wide Web protest against the Communications Decency Act in the United States
* July 24, 2003, Jueves negro (Spanish for Black Thursday), when a series of violent political demonstrations created havoc in Guatemala City
* The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, when the Dow Jones briefly lost more than 900 points in response to the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and algorithmic trading
* 30 September 2010, when the Irish government revealed to its people the alleged full cost of bailing out Anglo-Irish Bank, causing the country's deficit to rise to 32% of GDP[3]
* 30 September 2010 in Stuttgart, when German police forces used excessive force against protesters that demonstrated against the Stuttgart 21 train station building project. In August 2013, three policemen were found guilty of bodily injury and received a penalty order, one of the penalty orders was not protested against.
* Thanksgiving Day, the shopping holiday preceding Black Friday
Black Friday: Black Friday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Single days
* Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
* Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster in which 189 fishermen died
* Black Friday (1910), a particularly violent women's suffrage event in England
* Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people
* Black Friday (1945), an Allied air attack against German ships in Norway
* Hollywood Black Friday (1945), a riot at the Warner Bros. studios
* Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran
* Black Friday (1987), a tornado in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
* Black Friday (1993), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
* Black Friday (Maldives), a 2004 crackdown by government forces on a peaceful protest
* Black Friday (2011) or United States v. Scheinberg et al., a case involving online poker companies
Recurring days
* Black Friday (shopping), the day following Thanksgiving in the United States
* Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas
* Friday the 13th
* Good Friday or Black Friday, a Christian observance of Jesus' crucifixion
Black Saturday: Black Saturday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Holy Saturday
* Black Saturday (France), the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday
* Black Saturday bushfires (2009), when a series of bushfires burned across the Australian state of Victoria
* Black January or Black Saturday (1990), a crackdown on Azeri demonstrations by the Soviet army
* Black Saturday (1988), the single worst day of the fires in Yellowstone Park
* Black Saturday (wrestling) (1984), when the World Wrestling Federation took over the TBS television time slots that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling
* Black Saturday (1983), the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low
* Black Saturday (Lebanon) (1975), a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut
* Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis) (1962), when tensions reached their height
* Cairo Fire or Black Saturday (1952), a series of riots in Cairo
* Operation Agatha or Black Saturday (1946), British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries
* Battle of Gazala (1942), a battle between the German Afrika Korps and British armoured divisions
* Black Saturday (Mau Movement) (1929), the killing of 11 unarmed people by New Zealand police during a Mau demonstration in Samoa
* Black Saturday (1903), the collapse of a section of balcony during a baseball game between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, which killed 12 spectators and injured more than 200
* Black Saturday (1621), a dark, stormy day in Scotland, taken as a sign of Armageddon
* Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (1547), a battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies
* "Black Saturday", a 2012 song by Soundgarden from King Animal
Black Sunday: Black Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Black Sunday, the 1918 attack of SM U-151 against U.S. ships off the coast of New Jersey
* Black Sunday, a day of major bushfires in Victoria, Australia during the 1925–26 Victorian bushfire season
* Black Sunday (storm), a 1935 dust storm that swept across the Midwestern United States
* Black Sunday, a 1938 event of extraordinary surf conditions at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
* Black Sunday (1955), a series of bushfires in South Australia
* Black Sunday, the 1955 opening day of Disneyland Park
* Black Sunday, the 1982 cancellation of the Colony Shale Oil Project
* Black Sunday, the 1984 victory by the Los Angeles Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII
* Black Sunday, the 1998 failure of the Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System
* Black Sunday, the 2001 death of Dale Earnhardt
) and I have now come to a very enlightening conclusion.... We are all getting older....day by day....but being members of this forum, we don't find that so bad....phwew, that was heavy philosophy there
