November 13, 1887
“Bloody Sunday” took place in London when a march of 10,000 (including playwright George Bernard Shaw) against unemployment and coercion in Ireland (imprisonment without trial) was attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the horse-mounted Calvary The demonstration was organized by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League. Violent clashes took place between the police and demonstrators, many “armed with iron bars, knives, pokers and gas pipes”. A contemporary report noted that 400 were arrested and 75 persons were badly injured, including many police, two policemen being stabbed and one protester bayoneted.
