Bloody Sunday
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Events
- Bloody Sunday (1887)Bloody Sunday (1887)Bloody Sunday, London, 13 November 1887, was the name given to a demonstration against coercion in Ireland and to demand the release from prison of MP William O'Brien, who was imprisoned for incitement as a result of an incident in the Irish Land War. The demonstration was organized by the Social...
, a demonstration in London, England against British repression in Ireland - Bloody Sunday (1900)Bloody Sunday (1900)For other incidents referred to by this name, see Bloody Sunday.Bloody Sunday of February 18, 1900, was a day of high Imperial casualties in the Second Boer War.It occurred on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg...
, a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa - Bloody Sunday (1905)Bloody Sunday (1905)Bloody Sunday was a massacre on in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard while approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. The shooting did not...
, a massacre in Saint Petersburg, Russia that led to the 1905 Russian Revolution - Everett massacreEverett massacreThe Everett Massacre was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World union, commonly called "Wobblies". It took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, November 5, 1916...
(1916), violence in Washington, United States between trade union members and local authorities - Marburg's Bloody SundayMarburg's Bloody SundayMarburg's Bloody Sunday is the name of a massacre that took place on Monday, January 27, 1919 at Maribor in Slovenia...
(1919), a massacre of civilians of German ethnic origin in Maribor during the protest at the central city square - Bloody Sunday (1920)Bloody Sunday (1920)Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed – fourteen British, fourteen Irish civilians and three republican prisoners....
, a day of violence in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence - Bloody Sunday (1921)Bloody Sunday (1921)Bloody Sunday or Belfast's Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 10 July 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. Over a four day period, 22 people were killed, 16 of them on 10 July itself...
, a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence - Bloody Sunday (1926)Bloody Sunday (1926)Bloody Sunday is a name given to political clashes that occurred in Colmar, Alsace, France on August 22, 1926. On that day the French Communist Party and the Colmar section of the Popular Republican Union had organized a joint protest meeting at the Salle des Catherinettes...
, a day of violence in Alsace - Bloody Sunday (1938)Bloody Sunday (1938)Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia...
, police violence against unemployed protesters in Vancouver, Canada - Bloody Sunday (1939), aka Bromberg Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II
- Bloody Sunday (1965), a violent attack during the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, United States
- Bloody Sunday (1969)Bloody Sunday (1969)Bloody Sunday is the name given to a counter-revolutionary response to a leftist protest that occurred on February 16, 1969, in Istanbul's Beyazıt Square, Turkey. A coup d'état in 1960 had allowed a group of Turkish military officers to take control of the country. Under this established...
, violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey - Bloody Sunday (1972)Bloody Sunday (1972)Bloody Sunday —sometimes called the Bogside Massacre—was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army...
, shooting of unarmed civilian protesters by the British Army (Parachute Regiment) in Derry, Northern Ireland- Bloody Sunday InquiryBloody Sunday InquiryThe Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday...
(1998), an inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972
- Bloody Sunday Inquiry
- January Events (Lithuania) - January 13, 1991 attack on civilians is referred to as Bloody Sunday in Lithuania
Music
Several songs have been written about the Bloody Sunday (1972) in Northern Ireland, including:- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", a 1972 song from the album Some Time in New York CitySome Time in New York CitySome Time in New York City was released in 1972 and is John Lennon's third post-Beatles album, fifth with Yoko Ono, and third with producer Phil Spector...
, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono - "Bloody Sunday", a 1979 song by Stiff Little FingersStiff Little FingersStiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
- "Sunday Bloody SundaySunday Bloody Sunday"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song by U2.It may also refer to:*Sunday Bloody Sunday , a 1971 film*"Sunday, Bloody Sunday"...
", a 1983 song by U2
Media
- Bloody Sunday, a 2006 radio programme on Australian network Triple J
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Murray Head, Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with a female recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor...
, a 1971 film directed by John Schlesinger - Bloody Sunday (TV film), a 2002 film depicting a version of events of Bloody Sunday 1972
- Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville InquiryBloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville InquiryBloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry is a 2005 dramatisation by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor of four years of evidence of the Saville Inquiry, distilled into two hours of stage performance by Tricycle Theatre in London....
, a play by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor