Bloody Sunday
Was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army. Thirteen males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after, the death of another man four-and-a-half months later was caused by the injuries he received on that day. Two protesters were also injured when they were run down by army cars. In the late 1960s, discrimination against the Catholic minority in electoral boundaries, voting rights, and the allocation of public housing led organizations such as Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to mount a non-violent campaign for change.