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Bloody Sunday (Russian: Крова́вое воскресе́нье, romanized: Krovavoye voskresenye, IPA: [krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ]), also known as Red Sunday (Russian: Красное воскресенье), [1] was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by ...
On the morning of January 9, 1905, crowds of workers led by Gapon moved from different parts of the city toward the Winter Palace. On the approaches to the center they were met by military units and dispersed by cavalry and rifle fire. This day went down in history as "Bloody Sunday" and marked the beginning of the First Russian Revolution. A ...
Bloody Sunday (1913), an attack by police against protesting trade unionists in Dublin, Ireland during the Dublin lock-out; Bloody Sunday (1920), a day of violence in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence when police, British Army and Auxiliary forces opened fire on the crowd of a Gaelic Football match killing 14 people and injuring at least 80 others
Thirteen people were killed in the shootings in January 1972 and 15 others were injured.
The Everett massacre, also known as Bloody Sunday, was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, commonly called "Wobblies". It took place in Everett, Washington , on Sunday, November 5, 1916.
This is how "Bloody Sunday" got its name. Alabama native Annie Kynard Hackworth says several of her family members were part of the 600 peaceful protesters beaten up by state and local lawmen for ...
Families of those killed on Bloody Sunday have vowed they will continue to fight for justice ahead of the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s history.
They eventually fired on the demonstration, resulting in the deaths of an unknown number of violent radicals, peaceful demonstrators and police caught within the melee. Although Sunday, 9 January 1905, became known as Bloody Sunday, Gapon's own biography points to a conspiracy. This was later confirmed by Russian police records listing the ...