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 way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,—these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,—race living at the expense of race.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)