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Bloody Sunday en · PROPN

(historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
(US, historical) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
- So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.” 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN:
- Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas. 2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2014:
(Ireland, UK, historical) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
- We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday 1983, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, in War, performed by U2:
(historical) Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.