Black Sunday is a term used to refer to certain events which occur on a Sunday. It has been used in the following cases:

• "Black Sunday", February 14, 1926, a day of major bushfires in Victoria, Australia during the 1925-26 Victorian bushfire season
• "Black Sunday", a large dust storm that swept across the Dust Bowl, April 14, 1935
• "Black Sunday", February 6, 1938, when five people drowned and 250 needed assistance after Bondi Beach, Australia was swept by three large waves [1]
• "Black Sunday", November 8, 1942, when Nazis exterminated en masse Jews in Staszów, Poland
• "Black Sunday", June 11, 1944, When the 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) were decimated during an attack against elements of the German 12th SS Panzer Division at the Battle of Le Mesnil-Patry in Normandy during World War II.
• "Black Sunday", September 24, 1950, when sunlight was blocked from large areas of Western Pennsylvania by smoke from a forest fire in Canada (http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/bluemoonstories.html)
• "Black Sunday", a series of bushfires in South Australia in 1955
• "Black Sunday", 2 May 1982, Exxon canceled its US$5 billion Colony Shale Oil Project near Parachute, Colorado because of low oil-prices and increased expenses, laying off more than 2,000 workers and leaving a trail of home-foreclosures and small-business bankruptcies.
• "Black Sunday", November 24, 1991, the first time Vlaams Blok, an extreme right-wing party, gained a lot of votes in the Belgian elections.
• "Black Sunday", May 1, 1994, Ayrton Senna died during the running of the San Marino Grand Prix.
• "Black Sunday", April 26, 1998, failure of Denver International Airport automated inter-terminal subway, affecting 5,000 passengers.
• "Black Sunday", January 21, 2001, when satellite television provider DirecTV transmitted an electronic message from its orbiting satellites that destroyed thousands of hacked smart cards, which had been allowing pirates to gain free access to hundreds of channels of programming for four years.
• "Black Sunday", February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt died on the last lap in the final turn of the Daytona 500.
• "Black Sunday", December 28, 2008, the Detroit Lions became the first NFL team to finish 0-16 in a season.

[edit] See also

• Black Sunday for other uses

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