Black Saturday

Black Saturday

Black Saturday refers to several events:
* Black Saturday (1621), a particularly dark and stormy day in Scotland.
* Black Saturday (1929), the killing of 11 unarmed people by New Zealand police during a Mau demonstration in Samoa.
* Black Saturday (Lebanon), the December, 1975 massacre that helped precipitate the Lebanese Civil War.
* Black Saturday (1983), the day Hong Kong exchange rates fell to an all time low.
* Black Saturday (1984), the day Vince McMahon took over WTBS wrestling programming.
* Black Saturday (2004), an attack in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
* Black Saturday (France), a day of big traffic problems in France when many go on holiday.
* The term used in the Philippines to refer to Holy Saturday.
*The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies, in 1547
*Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis) (1962), the beginning of the military confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba.
*Operation Agatha, a British authorities operation in 1946 against Jewish paramilitary organizations in the Mandate of Palestine.

ee also

*Black Sabbath (disambiguation)
*Black Saturday is the name for the day between Good Friday and [Easter Sunday]


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