Black Saturday

Black Saturday may refer to:

• Holy Saturday
• Black Saturday (France), the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday
• Black Saturday bushfires (2009), when a series of bushfires burnt across the Australian state of Victoria
• Black January or Black Saturday (1990), a crackdown on Azeri demonstrations by the Soviet army
• Black Saturday (1988), the single worst day of the fires in Yellowstone Park
• Black Saturday (wrestling) (1984), when the WWF took over the TBS time slots that had been home to the GCW
• Black Saturday (1983), the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low
• Black Saturday (Lebanon) (1975), a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut
• Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis) (1962), when tensions reached their height
• Cairo Fire or Black Saturday (1952), a series of riots in Cairo
• Operation Agatha or Black Saturday (1946), British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries
• Battle of Gazala (1942), a battle between the German Afrika Korps and British armoured divisions
• Black Saturday (Mau Movement) (1929), the killing of 11 unarmed people by New Zealand police during a Mau demonstration in Samoa
• Black Saturday (1621), a dark, stormy day in Scotland, taken as a sign of Armageddon
• Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (1547), a battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies

See also