Bloody Friday can refer to various events in history that occurred on a Friday:
- Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square, a riot in Glasgow in 1919.
- Bloody Friday (Minneapolis), a police shooting of pickets in Minneapolis in 1934
- Bloody Friday (1968), demonstrations against the Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression.
- Bloody Friday (1972), a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansing during the Angolan Civil War.
- Bloody Friday (2008) which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
Famous quotes containing the words bloody and/or friday:
“The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media’s diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, knucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)