What the records say
- When
- 12 Aug 1969 – 14 Aug 1969
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 55.00° N, 7.33° W
- Description
- 1969 riots in Derry (Northern Ireland)
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Rioting broke out in Derry in the Battle of the Bogside, the first major confrontation of The Troubles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “violence entre protestants et catholiques (pratiquement exclus de la vie politique) en Irlande du Nord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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