Bloody Sunday
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Bloody Sunday may refer to:
Historical events
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Bloody Sunday (1923), a day of police violence during a steelworkers' strike for union recognition in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
- Bloody Sunday (1938), police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ireland
[edit]- Bloody Sunday (1913), an attack by police against protesting trade unionists in Dublin, Ireland during the Dublin lock-out
- Bloody Sunday (1920), a day of violence in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence when police, British Army and Auxiliary forces opened fire on the crowd of a Gaelic Football match killing 14 people and injuring at least 80 others
- Bloody Sunday (1921), a day of violence in Belfast during the Irish War of Independence, in which police launched a raid against Irish republicans, which was ambushed by the Irish Republican Army
- Bloody Sunday (1972), British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march, killing 14 of the protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland
England
[edit]- Bloody Sunday (1887), a day of violent clashes between protestors and police in London, England
- Bloody Sunday, a police charge on a crowd of protestors during the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike
Poland
[edit]- 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 Stanisławów Ghetto announcement
- Volhynian Bloody Sunday, a 1943 massacre of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian National Army paramilitaries
United States
[edit]- Everett massacre, a violent confrontation between police and striking workers in Everett, Washington, United States in November 1916
- Bloody Sunday (1965), the violent suppression of a civil rights march by state and local law enforcement in Selma, Alabama
Other
[edit]- Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high British military casualties during the Second Boer War
- Bloody Sunday (1905), the killing of unarmed demonstrators by Russian soldiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Marburg's Bloody Sunday, a 1919 massacre of ethnically German civilians by soldiers during a protest in Maribor, Slovenia
- Bloody Sunday (Bolzano), a 1921 day of unrest instigated by fascists in Bolzano, Italy
- Bloody Sunday (1926), a day of violence in Alsace between French nationalists and Alsatian autonomists
- Altona Bloody Sunday, a 1932 confrontation among the Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel, the police, and Communist Party supporters in Altona, Hamburg
- Bloody Sunday (1968), a massacre in Prostějov during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Bloody Sunday (1969), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey
- January Events (Lithuania), the 1991 killing of 14 civilians by the Soviet Army following the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- 2021 Calabarzon raids, the killing of nine activists and arrest of six individuals in Calabarzon, Philippines, by the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Other uses
[edit]- Bloody Sunday (film), a 2002 film about the 1972 event
- Bloody Sunday (radio show), a 2006 Australian radio programme
- Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a 2005 play by Richard Norton-Taylor
See also
[edit]- Black Sunday (disambiguation)
- Bloody Sunday Inquiry, a 1998 inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (disambiguation)
- Bloody Saturday (disambiguation)