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  2. List of fatal crowd crushes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of crowd collapses and crushes in which at least five people died. The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400. [1]

  3. Cabbage Patch riots - Wikipedia

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    The Cabbage Patch riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States in the fall and winter of 1983. The Cabbage Patch Kids toy line was in tremendous demand, and in 1982 Cabbage Patch's parent company Coleco was the best performer on the New York Stock Exchange, rising from $6.87 to $36.75 per share. [1]

  4. City College stampede - Wikipedia

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    The City College stampede was a crowd crush event on December 28, 1991, in the City College of New York gymnasium during a charity basketball game organized and promoted by hip hop celebrities P. Diddy and Heavy D. Nearly 5,000 people tried to pack into the gymnasium, which could fit 2,730 people. [1]

  5. Dozens crushed to death in stampede at Guinea football match ...

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    At least 56 football fans, including children, were killed in a stampede during a local tournament match in Nzerekore in Guinea, held in honour of the country’s military leader Mamadi Doumbouya.

  6. Stadium stampede kills 56 people in Guinea following fan ...

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    A stampede at a soccer stadium in the city of Nzerekore, Guinea, has killed 56 people, the government of Guinea said on Monday. Guinea's prime minister, Amadou Oury Bah, said in a post on X that ...

  7. Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia

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    Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season and is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at heavily discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight [2] or even on Thanksgiving.

  8. Black Friday: Bargain hunters from Facebook event crash ... - AOL

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    A virtual Black Friday stampede of bargain hunters overwhelmed Lowe's web site early this morning when the home-improvement retailer kicked off its holiday shopping sneak peek on Facebook. The ...

  9. Oxford Circus panic - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Circus panic, or Oxford Street panic, was a stampede in Oxford Circus tube station and surrounding streets in London, United Kingdom, around 16:38 GMT on Friday 24 November 2017 in which 16 people were injured.