Bloody Friday
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Bloody Friday can refer to various events in history that occurred on a Friday:
- Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square.
- Bloody FridayBloody Friday (Minneapolis)Bloody Friday is the name of an event which occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 20, 1934, when police shot on truck drivers injuring 67 picketers and killing the driver Henry Ness.-External links:* http://socialistworld.net/eng/2005/01/23us.html...
(Minneapolis, 1934) - Bloody Friday (1968) Demonstrations against the Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression.
- Bloody Friday (1972)Bloody Friday (1972)Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast on 21 July 1972. Twenty-two bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, killing nine people and injuring 130....
, a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican ArmyProvisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
. - Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansingEthnic cleansingEthnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic orreligious group from certain geographic areas....
in AngolaAngolaAngola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
during the civil warAngolan Civil WarThe Angolan Civil War was a major civil conflict in the Southern African state of Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with some interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. Prior to this, a decolonisation conflict had taken...
. - Bloody Friday (2008) which saw many of the world's stock exchangeStock exchangeA stock exchange is an entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and...
s experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.