Black Friday

The Black Friday has two directions. Historically, Black Friday is Friday November 11th 1887, when were carried out the four of the eight anarchists stopped after the explosion of a bomb at the time of the anarchistic gathering of Haymarket Square, in Chicago. This demonstration was the response of the anarchistic workmen of the city to the police repression which had prevailed a few days earlier, the May 3rd 1886, at the time of the strike of the workmen of the factories Mc Cormick, making two died among those.

Were hung: August Spies , Albert Parsons , George Engel , Adolph Fischer ;

Condemned to death, but committed suicide in prison: Louis Lingg ;

Pardoned, at the end of six years of prison or penitentiary: Michael Schwab , Oscar Neebe and Samuel Fielden .

The Black Friday has today very an other significance in relation to the festivals of end of the year. The shortly after the meal of Thanksgiving, Black Friday traditionally marks the kickoff of the period of the purchases of end of the year (Cfr the film “the race with the toy “with Arnold Schwarzenegger, it is the typical example and not even exaggerated an American behavior on this occasion).

The origin of the " term; black" friday refers to a more or less anecdotic accounting transaction. Indeed, one reports that at one time when accountancy was held with the hand, the accounts were written in red, because overdrawn, all the year until this famous Friday. The purchases of the shortly after Thanksgiving made it possible to leave “the red”, making pass the accounts into positive, which made it possible to write them with black ink, from where the term of black Friday.

Commercially speaking, to ensure the greatest possible profit, the practice was taken to propose consequent pays to launch the season of the purchases.

Zh-yue: 黑色星期五

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