Bloody Sunday
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English
Proper noun
- (historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
- (historical, US) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
- (historical, British, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
- 1983, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, in War, performed by U2:
- We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- (historical) Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.
Coordinate terms
- Selma (Sunday 7 March 1965 in Selma, Alabama, USA)