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The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
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The Troubles
1960s–1990s conflict in Northern Ireland
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre 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 and the death of another man four months later was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
Infantry regiment of the British Army
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Derry
City in Northern Ireland
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland, and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Foyle. Cityside and the old walled city being on the west bank and Waterside…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
January 30
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