Black Friday, as we now know it, is the shopping day after Thanksgiving that signals the start of the end of year sales. From stock market crashes, attacks on suffragettes, to calamitous performances by the England cricket team, there has never been, it seems, a shortage of black Fridays. After their batting collapse, England saw Australia amass a big score to help them win the match convincingly. Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968Alistair Cooke, writing for the Guardian, tried to capture the mood in the US following the death of the civil rights activist. Jittery market trading after the weekend led to more gloomy headlines, like Black Monday and Black Tuesday.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 17:14 UTC