Black friday timeline
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Updated: 27 Nov 2017
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Created byAudrey Versteegen
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The crash in the US gold market
was the original "Black Friday".Eaton's started a
thanksgiving paradeMacy's followed Eaton's example
and started it's Thanksgiving parade.
The parade boosted profits the next day.Eaton's added
to their paradeCongress made Thanksgiving the
fourth Thursday of November.There was the great Depression.
Thanksgiving was the during the
fifth week of November. Retailers
worried they would go bankrupt
because of the shortened selling time
for Christmas.There was a push to call Black Friday
Big Friday, but it didn't catch on.Periods
People started taking the day
after Thanksgiving off to buy thingsPolice, which were needed to
control the crowds and traffic jams,
started calling this Black Friday
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