Black Saturday
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Black Saturday may refer to:
- Holy SaturdayHoly SaturdayHoly Saturday , sometimes known as Easter Eve or Black Saturday, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter...
- Black Saturday (France)Black Saturday (France)Black Saturday refers, in France, to the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday. This Saturday is usually at the end of July, though in 2007 both the last Saturday of July and the first Saturday of August are designated as Black Saturdays....
, 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 JanuaryBlack JanuaryBlack January , also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown of the Azerbaijani independence movement in Baku on January 19–20, 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union....
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)Black Saturday (1983)Black Saturday is the name given to the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low. On that day, the USD $1 = HKD $9.6. For a period, Hong Kong stores began quoting products in US dollar prices, because of the uncertain fluctuation in domestic currency.-History:From...
, the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low - Black Saturday (Lebanon)Black Saturday (Lebanon)Black Saturday was a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut, that occurred in the first stages of the Lebanese Civil War.On Saturday December 6, 1975, the bodies of four members of the rightist Kataeb Party , an organization grouping primarily Maronite Christians, were found in an...
(1975), a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut - Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis) (1962), when tensions reached their height
- Cairo FireCairo FireThe Cairo Fire , also known as Black Saturday, was a series of riots that took place on 26 January 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildings -- retail shops, cafes, cinemas, hotels, restaurants, theatres, nightclubs and the country's Opera House -- in Downtown Cairo...
or Black Saturday (1952), a series of riots in Cairo - Operation AgathaOperation AgathaOperation Agatha sometimes called Black Shabbat or Black Saturday because it began on the Jewish sabbath, was a police and military operation conducted by the British authorities in the British Mandate of Palestine...
or Black Saturday (1946), British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries - Battle of GazalaBattle of GazalaThe Battle of Gazala was an important battle of the Second World War Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya from 26 May-21 June 1942...
(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)Black Saturday (1621)Black Saturday is a term used in Scotland to describe a particularly dark, stormy Saturday that occurred on 4 August 1621. Many regarded the foul weather as a judgment of Heaven against Acts then passed in the Scots Parliament tending to establish Episcopacy. Many suicides were recorded on this...
, a dark, stormy day in Scotland, taken as a sign of Armageddon - Battle of Pinkie CleughBattle of Pinkie CleughThe Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, on the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh, Scotland on 10 September 1547, was part of the War of the Rough Wooing. It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles...
(1547), a battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies