What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1972
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 14
- Coordinates
- 55.00° N, 7.33° W
- Description
- shooting of 26 civilians by British soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972 during the Troubles
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred 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, while the death of another man four months later has been attributed to his gunshot injuries.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nordirischer Blutsonntag”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Lors de la tuerie du Bloody Sunday, treize personnes participant à une marche en faveur des droits civiques sont tuées à Londonderry, en Irlande du Nord dans…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Кровавое воскресенье — события, произошедшие в районе Богсайд североирландского города Лондондерри”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Irlanda del Norte los sucesos del Domingo Sangriento dejan un saldo de 13 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “北アイルランド・ロンドンデリーでカトリック系住民のデモとイギリス部隊が衝突。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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