Black Sunday (disambiguation)
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- In Australia, Sunday, February 6, 1938 is known as Black Sunday. On this day, Sydney's Bondi Beach was hit by three tremendous waves. Out of the crowd of 35,000 people, only five were killed.
- Black Sunday is also the name given, in Disney parlance, to Disneyland's opening day, in 1955. Much of the park was incomplete; a plumbers' strike had made Disney choose between having adequate restrooms and adequate drinking fountains (he chose the former); the asphalt pavement on Main Street was still soft; to make matters worse, the relatively small group of invited guests were joined by hundreds more who had managed to get in with forged admission tickets, or by climbing over fences. Worst: it all happened on national television.
- Black Sunday in Brazil is August 16, 1992, when Brazilians responded to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a sign of support to him, then involved in a corruption scandal, by wearing black and carrying black flags.[1][2]. That manifestation started a wave of protests around the country. Collor was impeached by the Chamber of Deputies in September 29, 1992 and later renounced to escape the definitive judgment by the Senate[3].
- Black Sunday is the English name for the Italian movie La maschera del demonio, a 1960 black-and-white Italian horror movie directed by Mario Bava, starring Barbara Steele.
- Black Sunday (album) was Cypress Hill's second album, including their biggest hit, "Insane In The Brain".
- Black Sunday is a novel by Thomas Harris.
- Black Sunday (film) is a 1977 American film adaptation of the novel.
- Black Sunday is also a song by Jethro Tull, released on the album A in 1980.
- Black Sunday was the name given to the single worst event in Kingdom of Loathing history, when exploitation of a meat-creation bug by unscrupulous players caused a massive surge in currency, and thus massive inflation.[3]
- Black Sunday (Belgium) refers to an electoral victory in Flanders (Belgium) of the far right party Vlaams Blok (Flemish Bloc), now called Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest).
- Black Sunday refers to April 4, 2004, when US forces on patrol in Sadr City were ambushed. It is considered by some to be a turning point in the war when the magnitude of the insurgency began to become apparent.[4] [5]
- Following the release of the book and film by the same name, at least three real-life Sundays related to the Super Bowl have been referred to as Black Sunday.
- January 21, 1979 (Super Bowl XIII) gained notoriety with bookmakers. For the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, bookmakers opened Pittsburgh as a 3.5 point favorite, but the line closed just before kickoff at Pittsburgh -4.5. Pittsburgh won the game by four points (35-31), enabling both those who took the Steelers -3.5 and those who wagered on the Cowboys +4.5 to collect.
- January 24, 1984 (Super Bowl XVIII), in reference to the Los Angeles Raiders' colors of silver and black and their crushing victory over the Washington Redskins.
- January 21, 2001 one week before Super Bowl XXXV aired gained notoriety with computer crackers. Unauthorized users of DirecTV services were hit by an especially devastating and technologically masterful ECM, rendering hundreds of thousands of modified smart cards useless [6].
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| Black Sunday | Black Monday | Black Tuesday | Black Wednesday | Black Thursday | Black Friday | Black Saturday |
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