Black Friday Timeline
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Updated: 21 Nov 2017
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Created byAllen Jiang
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Name originated from the mid 1960sIn 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation to make Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in NovemberDuring the 1930's Thanksgiving Day's relationship to Christmas shopping led to controversyIn 2015, Amazon.com held "Prime Day" event in JulyIn 1905 Canadian department store Eaton's began the first Thanksgiving parade by bringing Santa on a wagon through the streets of TorontoIn 2005, the term "Cyber Monday" was first used during the holiday seasonIn 2004, Ellen Davis coined the term "Cyber Monday""Cyber Monday" made its debut, the first day of Cyber MondayPeriods
Black Friday was the day retailers began to turn a profit for the year. Operating at a profit was "being in the black," thus the name."Prime Day" would repeat through 2016 and 2017
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