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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.
Aug 26, 2004 · Bloody Sunday, demonstration in Londonderry, 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).
Mar 4, 2020 · On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a peaceful 600‑person civil rights demonstration ends in violence when marchers are attacked and beaten by white members of police.
Jan 27, 2022 · BBC. Thirteen people were killed and 15 wounded on Bloody Sunday. Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil...
Mar 6, 2015 · On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers,...
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...
Jan 29, 2022 · But the effort to unravel what happened in those brief moments — to parse the antecedents and the outcomes, to trace the lines of command on the grisly day that became known as Bloody Sunday —...
Jul 2, 2021 · It became known as Bloody Sunday and these are the victims: Patrick Doherty. PA. Married father-of-six Patrick Doherty, known as Paddy, was 31 years old when he joined the march. He worked in...
Jan 30, 2022 · Locals in the city called either Londonderry or Derry, Northern Ireland, are marking 50 years since Bloody Sunday, in which British soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters in what's now...
Jun 12, 2010 · On Tuesday the Saville Inquiry published its long-awaited report on Bloody Sunday when 13 people on a civil rights march were shot dead by paratroops in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Click...