Black Friday Sale Black Friday Sale Black Friday Sale is a joint sales initiative by hundreds of online vendors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, inspired by the American Black Friday. The event was first launched on 28 November 2013: Over its 24-hour run, more than 1.2 million people visited the site, making it the single largest online shopping event in German speaking countries. Many leading online retailers such as Zalando, Disney Store, Saturn, Galeria Kaufhof, Deichmann, The Body Shop, Sony, Yves Rocher and Dell participated in the event in 2013. Once the Black Friday Sale started at 7 pm on 28 November 2013,
Black Friday (1978) reported that 2000 to 3000 people had died in the Jaleh Square, and he later raised that number to 4000. The BBC's correspondent in Iran, Andrew Whitley, reported that hundreds had died. According to Emadeddin Baghi, a former researcher at the Martyrs Foundation ("Bonyad Shahid", part of the current Iranian government, which compensates families of victims) hired "to make sense of the data" on those killed on Black Friday, 64 were killed in Jaleh Square on Black Friday, with two females: one woman and a young girl. On the same day in other parts of the capital, 24 people died