Night of the Long Knives (disambiguation)

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Night of the Long Knives can refer to:

• The Night of the Long Knives (Arthurian) — the massacre of British chieftains at peace negotiations (ca. AD 450, Salisbury Plain, Britain), and the origin of the term.
• The Night of the Long Knives (1934) — the purge of Adolf Hitler's political opponents in Nazi Germany.
• The Night of the Long Knives (1962) — when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his cabinet.
• The Night of the Long Knives in Iraq July 22, 1979, when Saddam Hussein purged Ba'ath Party leaders
• The Night of the Long Knives (1981) — used in Canada to describe the Kitchen Accord
• The "Night of the Long Knives", the nickname of a former rallying stage of the Monte Carlo Rally driven at night, with the strong high beam lights of the cars cutting back and forth
• "Night of the Long Knives" — a song from the album For Those About to Rock We Salute You by the Australian hard rock group AC/DC.
• "Night of the Long Knives" — a song by the Swedish black metal group Marduk.