PlayRatty: Black Friday (Ads) Cometh

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Black Friday (Ads) Cometh

2007-11-16 05:37:20 by ubersoldat in Video Games

Throughout history, many unusual events have occured on Black Friday:

Black Friday (1869), a financial crisis in the United States

Black Friday (1881) in which 189 Scottish fishermen lost their lives

Black Friday (1889), the day of the Johnstown Flood.

Black Friday (1910), the Women’s Social and Political Union took militant action when the Conciliation Bill failed.

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

Hollywood Black Friday (1945), the day the six-month-old Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike boiled over into a bloody riot at the Warner Bros. studios leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU.

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 (1987), the day an hour-long F4 category tornado ran through the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Black Friday (2004), a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.

In contrast to all the horrors that have plagued the Friday immediately following Thanksgiving Day, contemporary Black Fridays symbolize the point in the year that retailers start making net profits. Because profits are denoted in accounting by Black, and deficits by Red, it follows that this day be called Black Friday. With all this having been said, expect to see many different sales ads, like Best Buy, CompUSA, Sears, Target, JCPenney, Walmart, etc., for Black Friday 2007.