Bloody Sunday

Proper Noun

• A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
• Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.
• A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
• A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 13 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.