Who really knows the history behind the date of friday the 13th?”
There have been a number of events known as “Black Fridays” in history. Usually, these events are devastating. Some historians propose that the origin of the “Black Friday” was the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of Knights Templars on October 13, 1307 (Friday), to be later tortured into “admitting” heresy. Today, the concept of Friday the 13th has been extended through the ‘black Friday’ concept to incorporate anything really bad that happens on a Friday. In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are known as Black Friday: Black Friday (1869), a financial crisis in the United States Black Friday (1889), the day of the Johnstown Flood. Black Friday (1910), WSPU took militant action when the Conciliation Bill failed. Black Friday (1919), a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest Black Friday (1921), day on which British dockers’ and railwaymen’s union leaders announced their decision not to call for strike action against wage reductions for mine
