Black Saturday

Black Saturday may refer to:

  • Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday
  • Black Saturday (France), the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday
  • Battle of Pinkie Cleugh a 1547 battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies
  • Black Saturday (1621), a dark, stormy day in Scotland, taken as a sign of Armageddon
  • Black Saturday (1900), the collapse of Dumbell's Bank, Isle of Man, leading to numerous bankruptcies and poverty
  • 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 (Mau Movement), a 1929 killing of 11 unarmed people by New Zealand police during a Mau demonstration in Samoa
  • Black Saturday, a day during the 1942 Battle of Gazala between the German Afrika Korps and British armoured divisions
  • Operation Agatha or Black Saturday (1946), British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries
  • Cairo Fire or Black Saturday, a 1952 series of riots in Cairo
  • Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis), a day in 1962 when tensions reached their height
  • Massacre of the Sixty or Black Saturday, a 1974 execution of 60 senior Ethiopian officials by the country's ruling junta
  • Black Saturday (Lebanon) a 1975 series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut
  • Black Saturday (1983), the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low
  • Black Saturday (1988), the single worst day of the fires in Yellowstone Park
  • Black Saturday (professional wrestling) a 1984 event when the World Wrestling Federation took over the TBS television time slots that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • Black January or Black Saturday, a 1990 crackdown on Azeri demonstrations by the Soviet army
  • Black Saturday bushfires, a 2009 series of bushfires that burned across the Australian state of Victoria
  • "Black Saturday", a 2012 song by Soundgarden from King Animal
  • "Black Saturday", a 2014 song by Mando Diao from Ælita

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