Bloody Sunday facts
While investigating facts about Bloody Sunday Selma and Bloody Sunday Russia, I found out little known, but curios details like:
How in 1484 the alchemist Giovanni Mercurio rode into Rome wearing a bloody robe, crown of thorns, and silver halo, marching into St. Peter's Basilica in the middle of Palm Sunday mass and depositing an alchemical essay called ‘The Eternal Gospel’ on the altar, and immediately fleeing town
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Independent Socialist MP who slapped the Home Secretary in the House of Commons for defending the Parachute Regiment after Bloody Sunday, and survived an assassination attempt by the Ulster Defence Association after being shot 9 times
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what's bloody sunday meaning. Here are 9 of the best facts about Bloody Sunday Ireland and Bloody Sunday 1920 I managed to collect.
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Since so many activists were hospitalized as a result of the violence and it took place on a Sunday, the March 7 march became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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A brazilian band made an "uplifting" cover of the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and was a huge success because most people didn't know the lyrics.
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There have been nineteen different Bloody Sundays, and four of them were in or related to Ireland.
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The song Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 is about the event Bogside Massacre where British soldiers opened fire on Irish protesters - January 30, 1972
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In addition to the infamous 1972 event in Derry, Northern Ireland that U2 sang about, there are at least 18 other events called "Bloody Sunday" around the world. It's by far the most "Bloody" day, with Bloody Friday second with 9.
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Russia had its own Bloody Sunday in 2005. Similarly to Northern Ireland's, unarmed protesters were shot and killed.
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I learned that the bridge in Alabama on which civil rights protesters were attacked by the police on Bloody Sunday was named after a Confederate general and grand dragon in the KKK.
