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Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.
May 11, 2024 · 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).
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,...
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 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 —...
Jan 30, 2022 · CNN — Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Irish conflict, relatives are still searching for the...
