Night of the Long Knives (disambiguation)
The Night of the Long Knives was a purge of political opponents in Nazi Germany in 1934.
Night of the Long Knives may also refer to:
Historical events
- Night of the Long Knives (Arthurian), a massacre of British chieftains by Saxons ca. 460
- Night of the Long Knives (1962), a political purge in Britain
- The 1841 assassination in Afghanistan of Alexander Burnes
- The 1981 Kitchen Meeting in the process of Canadian constitutional patriation, where the province of Quebec was left out of a key negotiation to its detriment, unaware until the next morning.
- Night of the Long Knives (1992), the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack on the Irish People's Liberation Organisation, which forced the latter to disband
Arts, entertainment and media
Music
- A song from the AC/DC album For Those About to Rock We Salute You
- A song from the Machine Head album Bloodstone & Diamonds about the Helter Skelter murders
Television
- An episode of the television series The Time Tunnel
Literature
- A 1960 novella by Fritz Leiber
Sports
- A stage in the road race Monte Carlo Rally
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