Proper noun
(historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
(historical) Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.
(historical, US) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
(historical, Britain, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 13 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA claim was made at the Saville Inquiry that McGuinness was responsible for supplying detonators for nail bombs on Bloody Sunday. Source: Internet
A former British paratrooper known to the public as Soldier F is on charges of murdering two people during the massacre known as Bloody Sunday in 1972, when British troops opened fire on unarmed Catholic demonstrators in Derry, killing 13 that day. Source: Internet
After Bloody Sunday many Catholics turned on the British army, seeing it no longer as their protector but as their enemy. Source: Internet
Bloody Sunday in Derry p. 123 Widgery acknowledged that a photograph taken seconds after Gilmour was hit corroborated witness reports that he was unarmed, and that tests for gunshot residue were negative. Source: Internet
Before serving in Congress, Lewis spent years as a pioneering activist in the civil rights movement, marching with Martin Luther King and nearly dying in the 1965 attack on marchers in Alabama known as Bloody Sunday. Source: Internet
Connaughton, p. 109, 342 Tsar Nicholas II elected to negotiate peace so he could concentrate on internal matters after the disaster of Bloody Sunday on 22 January 1905. Source: Internet