Black Saturday.html



Black Saturday may refer to:

• The term used in the Philippines to refer to Holy Saturday.
• Black Saturday (France), a day of big traffic problems in France when many go on holiday.

Black Saturday may refer to the following historical 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.
• 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.

See also

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

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

1952 Central Cairo