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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.
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