Black Saturday

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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 burned 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 World Wrestling Federation took over the TBS television time slots that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • 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 (1903), the collapse of a section of balcony during a baseball game between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, which killed 12 spectators and injured more than 200
  • 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
  • "Black Saturday", a 2012 song by Soundgarden from King Animal

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