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 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

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or saturday:

    Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.
    bell hooks (b. 1955)

    The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)