Bloody Sunday
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Bloody Sunday may refer to:
Events
- Bloody Sunday (1887), a combined police and military attack on a demonstration in London, England against British repression in Ireland
- Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa
- Bloody Sunday (1905), a massacre in Saint Petersburg that led to the 1905 Russian Revolution
- Bloody Sunday (1911), a police charge on a crowd during the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike
- Everett massacre (1916), violence in Washington, United States between trade union members and local authorities
- Marburg's Bloody Sunday (1919), a massacre of civilians of German ethnic origin in Maribor during the protest at the central city square
- Bloody Sunday (1920), a day in which British soldiers shot civilians during a GAA match in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
- Bloody Sunday (1921), a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
- Bloody Sunday (1923), a day of violence in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during miners' strikes
- Bloody Sunday (1926), a day of violence in Alsace
- Altona Bloody Sunday (1932), a bloody confrontation among the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS), the police, and Communist Party (KPD) supporters in Altona, Hamburg
- Bloody Sunday (1938), police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver, Canada
- Bloody Sunday (1939) (Bromberg Bloody Sunday), the name given by Nazi propaganda to events in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II
- Stanislawow Ghetto Bloody Sunday massacre, a massacre of 10,000 to 12,000 Jews before the Stanisławów Ghetto announcement
- Bloody Sunday (1965), the violent suppression of a March 7, 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama by state and local law enforcement
- Bloody Sunday (1969), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey
- Bloody Sunday (1972), shooting of civilian protesters by the British Army (Parachute Regiment) in Derry, Northern Ireland
- Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998), an inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972
- January Events (Lithuania), a 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 City, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- "Bloody Sunday", a 1979 song by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", a 1983 song by U2
Media
- Bloody Sunday (radio show), a 2006 radio programme on Australian network Triple J
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (film), a 1971 film directed by John Schlesinger
- Bloody Sunday (film), a 2002 film depicting a version of events of Bloody Sunday 1972
- Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a 2005 play by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor
See also
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