Black Sunday may refer to:

Events

Natural disasters

*Black Sunday, a day of major bushfires in Victoria, Australia during the

1925–26 Victorian bushfire season A series of major bushfires occurred between 26 January and 10 March 1926 in the state of Victoria in Australia. A total of 60 people were killed with 700 injured, and 1000 buildings and 390,000 ha were destroyed across the south-east of the sta ...

* Black Sunday (storm), a 1935 dust storm that swept across the Midwestern United States during the Dust Bowl *Black Sunday, a 1938 event of extraordinary surf conditions at

Bondi Beach Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bondi Beach is located east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council, in the Easter ...

, Sydney, Australia * Black Sunday (1955), a series of bushfires in South Australia *Black Sunday (1963), the deadliest lightning strike on record involving

Pan Am Flight 214 Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Friendship Airport in Baltimore and Philadelphia International Airport. On December 8, 1963, the Boeing 7 ...

, or The Clipper Tradewind, a Boeing 707-121 that crashed in Maryland on 8 December 1963. *Black Sunday, the day of the deadly

1967 Iowa–Minnesota tornado outbreak Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

*Black Sunday, the evening the deadliest single tornado in to ever hit the US State of Missouri, the

2011 Joplin Tornado A devastating EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado struck Joplin, Missouri on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011. Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the tornado touched down just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a ...

Warfare and terrorism

*Black Sunday, the 1918 attack of SM ''U-151'' against U.S. ships off the coast of New Jersey *

Black Sunday, 1937 Black Sunday, 1937 refers to a series of acts undertaken by Jewish militants of the Irgun faction against Arab civilians on 14 November 1937. It was among the first challenges to the Havlagah (lit. restraint) policy not to retaliate against Arab ...

, an Irgun attack on November 14 in Jerusalem *Black Sunday, a 1943 event where 53 USAAF aircraft and 660 aircrewmen were lost during

Operation Tidal Wave Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of ...

* Bus massacre, also known as Black Sunday, the 1975 clashes in Beirut that started the Lebanese Civil War *Black Sunday, the first day of the Siege of Sadr City (2004–2007) during the Iraq War

Other events

*Black Sunday, the 1955 opening day of Disneyland Park *Black Sunday, the 1982 cancellation of the

Colony Shale Oil Project Colony Shale Oil Project was an oil shale development project at the Piceance Basin near Parachute Creek, Colorado. The project consisted of an oil shale mine and pilot-scale shale oil plant, which used the TOSCO II retorting technology, develo ...

*Black Sunday, the 1984 victory by the Los Angeles Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII *Black Sunday, the 1998 failure of the Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System *Black Sunday, the 2001 death of Dale Earnhardt *

Black Sunday (2005) Black Sunday has been used to describe January 23, 2005, when three firefighters of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in two fires: two at a tenement fire in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, with four others being seriously ...

, a day when three New York City firefighters were killed in two fires *Black Sunday, the

2020 Calabasas helicopter crash On January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed in the city of Calabasas, California, around northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, while en route from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport. All nine people on board were killed: retire ...

that killed

Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...

and his daughter Gianna, alongside seven other people.

Music

* ''Black Sunday'' (Cypress Hill album) (1993) * ''Black Sunday'' (Sutter Kain & Donnie Darko album) (2005) *"Black Sunday", a song by Black Label Society from ''

Order of the Black ''Order of the Black'' is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Black Label Society. It was released in North America on August 10, 2010, through E1 Music. In New Zealand and Australia, it was released by Riot Entertainment (with ...

'' *"Black Sunday", a song by Coheed and Cambria from album '' Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures'' *"Black Sunday", a song by Cold from ''

Year of the Spider ''Year of the Spider'' is the third studio album by American rock band Cold. It was released on May 13, 2003 through Geffen Records. The album was Cold's most commercially successful, debuting at number three on the '' Billboard'' album charts, ...

'' *"Black Sunday", a song by Espen Lind from ''

This Is Pop Music ''This Is Pop Music'' is the third album by the Norwegian singer/songwriter Espen Lind and the second released under his name. Three singles were released for the album: "Black Sunday", "Life Is Good", and "Where the Lost Ones Go", the latter a due ...

'' *"Black Sunday", a song by Jag Panzer from album ''

Ample Destruction ''Ample Destruction'' is the first studio album released by American power metal band Jag Panzer, released in 1984. Originally released on Azra Records, a small independent label, it received poor marketing from the label, and thus became only an ...

'' *"Black Sunday", a song by Jethro Tull from '' A''

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