Black Friday (shopping) corner the gold market. When President Grant learned of this manipulation, he ordered the Treasury to release a large supply of gold, which halted the run and caused prices to drop by eighteen percent. Fortunes were made and lost in a single day, and the president's own brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, was ruined. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurs in the journal, "Factory Management and Maintenance", for November 1951, and again in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to
Black Friday (2007 film) Films of the Decade list. It was included in critic and author Shubhra Gupta's book, "50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015". Danny Boyle cited "Black Friday" as an inspiration for his 2008 Academy award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire". He stated that a chase in one of the opening scenes was based on a "12-minute police chase through the crowded Dharavi slum" in "Black Friday". In 2014 filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane, when asked about the most important films in last decade, replied "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" (2006) and "Black Friday". Black Friday (2007 film) Black Friday is a 2007 Indian docudrama film written