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 ]

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 нед?ля у Стан?слав? ), a 1941 massacre of Jews before the Stanisławow 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 Prost?jov 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

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