Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, [1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, [n 1] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.

5 days ago · Bloody Sunday was a demonstration in Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland, on Sunday, January 30, 1972, by Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others (one of the injured later died).

Jan 27, 2022 · Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside - a predominantly Catholic part...

Feb 9, 2010 · In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators are shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protesters, all...

10 hours ago · "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was released in March 1972. It was considered a rebel song and thus not played by the Republic of Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ. [2] Despite this, it reached number one in the Irish Singles Charts on 29 April 1972. [3]John Lennon and Yoko Ono released a song with the same title in June 1972. U2's better-known song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was released in 1983.

Bloody Sunday (1939) or Bromberg Bloody Sunday, events in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II Stanislawow Ghetto massacre (German: Blutsonntag von Stanislau , Ukrainian: Кривава неділя у Станіславі ), a 1941 massacre of Jews before the …

Jan 23, 2025 · The decades leading up to Bloody Sunday were full of discontent. Poor conditions for the peasants in the countryside and the workers in the cities meant that the lower echelons of Russian society were unhappy. This unhappiness was exacerbated by weak leadership. Tsar Nicholas II, who became ruler of Russia in his mid-20s after the early death ...

1 day ago · Precious recorded testimonies by the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives whose lives were devastated by the Bloody Sunday atrocity - and which formed the basis of the acclaimed play ‘4 Days in ...

Selma, Alabama served as a major site of civil unrest in response to the disabling conditions of Jim Crow laws for Black Americans in the South. This page outlines Selma’s history, the Bloody Sunday massacre, and the ensuing responses to these racial injustices.

Apr 2, 2024 · Peaceful civil rights protestors were met with violence by police officers in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."