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Bloody Friday (2008)
Bloody Friday may refer to: *Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square, a riot in Glasgow in 1919 *Bloody Friday (Minneapolis), a police shooting of pickets in Minneapolis in 1934 *Bloody Friday (1968), demonstrations against the Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression * Bloody Friday (1970), an attack by construction workers on students protesting the Vietnam War *Bloody Friday (1972), a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army *Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansing against the Kongo during the Angolan Civil War *Bloody Friday (1998), a confrontation between university students and police forces during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia * Bloody Friday (2008), the stock market crash on 24 October 2008, which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices * Bloody Friday (2015), a series of terrorist attacks, involving mainly the Islami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (1919)
The Battle of George Square was a violent confrontation in Glasgow, Scotland between Glasgow City Police and striking Glasgow workers, centred around George Square. The 'battle', also known as "Bloody Friday" or "Black Friday", took place on Friday 31 January 1919, 82 days after the end of the First World War. During the riot, the Sheriff of Lanarkshire called for military aid, and British Army, British troops, supported by Tank, six tanks, were moved to key points in Glasgow. The strike leaders were arrested for inciting the riot. Although it is often stated that there were no fatalities, one police constable died several months later from injuries received during the rioting. The "Forty Hours Strike" The end of the First World War saw the United Kingdom Demobilization, demobilise its military and industry from its war footing, reducing employment. This combined with the increasingly worsening domestic Aftermath of World War I#Great Britain, fiscal and monetary environment to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (Minneapolis)
Bloody Friday is the name of an event which occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 20, 1934, when police shot at truck drivers injuring 67 picketers and killing strikers John Belor and Henry Ness. This was one incident in the Minneapolis general strike of 1934, beginning May 20 and ending on August 22. In 1940 the Aquatennial celebrations were created in the same third week of July as the first Bloody Friday had landed on, "to take the minds of Minneapolis citizens off past troubles and focus all minds throughout the state on some pleasant event." Background During the Great Depression work for drivers of Minneapolis was sporadic. Because of the poor economic conditions of the time people wouldn’t order coal unless serious weather was coming. As a result, coal workers would only find work when the weather was severe for 20-30 cents per hour, often for long shifts that could last until midnight. Under the leadership of Vincent Dunne and Carl Skoglund, the coal workers orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (1968)
Bloody Friday may refer to: *Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square, a riot in Glasgow in 1919 *Bloody Friday (Minneapolis), a police shooting of pickets in Minneapolis in 1934 * Bloody Friday (1968), demonstrations against the Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression * Bloody Friday (1970), an attack by construction workers on students protesting the Vietnam War *Bloody Friday (1972), a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army *Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansing against the Kongo during the Angolan Civil War * Bloody Friday (1998), a confrontation between university students and police forces during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia * Bloody Friday (2008), the stock market crash on 24 October 2008, which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices * Bloody Friday (2015), a series of terrorist attacks, involving mainly the Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Brazil
The history of Brazil begins with indigenous people in Brazil. Europeans arrived in Brazil at the ending of the 15th century. The first European to claim sovereignty over Indigenous lands part of what is now the territory of the Federative Republic of Brazil on the continent of South America was Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467/1468 – c. 1520) on 22 April 1500 under the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Portugal. From the 16th to the early 19th century, Brazil was a colony and a part of the Portuguese Empire. The country expanded south along the coast and west along the Amazon and other inland rivers from the original 15 donatary captaincy colonies established on the northeast Atlantic coast east of the Tordesillas Line of 1494 (approximately the 46th meridian west) that divided the Portuguese domain to the east from the Spanish domain to the west, although Brazil was at one time a colony of Spain. The country's borders were only finalized in the early 20th century. On 7 September 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Hat Riot
The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and chanted "USA, All the way", and "America, love it or leave it". Anti-war protesters shouted, “Peace now”. The riot, first breaking out near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, led to a mob scene with more than 20,000 people in the streets, eventually leading to a siege of New York City Hall, an attack on the conservative Pace University, and lasted more than three hours. Around 100 people, including seven policemen, were injured on what became known as "Bloody Friday". Six people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (1972)
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half hour period. Most of them were car bombs and most targeted infrastructure, especially the transport network. Nine people were killed: five civilians, two British soldiers, a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) reservist, and an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, while 130 were injured.Northern Ireland Office news-sheet (CAIN) The IRA said it sent telephoned warnings at least t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (1993)
Bloody Friday may refer to: *Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square, a riot in Glasgow in 1919 *Bloody Friday (Minneapolis), a police shooting of pickets in Minneapolis in 1934 *Bloody Friday (1968), demonstrations against the History of Brazil#Military dictatorship (1964–1985), Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression *Hard Hat Riot, Bloody Friday (1970), an attack by construction workers on students protesting the Vietnam War *Bloody Friday (1972), a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army *Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansing against the Kongo people, Kongo during the Angolan Civil War *Bloody Friday (1998), a confrontation between university students and police forces during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia *Bloody Friday (2008), the stock market crash on 24 October 2008, which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongo People
The Kongo people ( kg, Bisi Kongo, , singular: ; also , singular: ) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo. Subgroups include the Beembe, Bwende, Vili, Sundi, Yombe, Dondo, Lari, and others. They have lived along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, in a region that by the 15th century was a centralized and well-organized Kingdom of Kongo, but is now a part of three countries. Their highest concentrations are found south of in the Republic of the Congo, southwest of Pool Malebo and west of the Kwango River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, north of Luanda, Angola and southwest Gabon. They are the largest ethnic group in the Republic of the Congo, and one of the major ethnic groups in the other two countries they are found in. In 1975, the Kongo population was reported as 4,040,000. The Kongo people were among the earliest indigenous Africans to welcome Portuguese traders in 1483 CE, and began converting to Catholicism in the late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War ( pt, Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war immediately began after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. The war was a power struggle between two former anti-colonial guerrilla movements, the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the turned anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The war was used as a surrogate battleground for the Cold War by rival states such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States. The MPLA and UNITA had different roots in Angolan society and mutually incompatible leaderships, despite their shared aim of ending colonial rule. A third movement, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), having fought the MPLA with UNITA during the war for independence, played almost no role in the Civil War. Additionally, the Front for the Liberati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (1998)
The May 1998 riots of Indonesia ( id, Kerusuhan Mei 1998), also known as the 1998 tragedy (''Tragedi 1998'') or simply the 1998 event (''Peristiwa 1998''), were incidents of mass violence, demonstrations, and civil unrest that occurred throughout Indonesia, mainly in Medan in the province of North Sumatra (4–8 May), the capital city of Jakarta (12–15 May), and Surakarta (also called Solo) in the province of Central Java (13–15 May). The violent riots were triggered by corruption, economic problems, including food shortages and mass unemployment. It eventually led to the resignation of President Suharto and the fall of the New Order government, which had been in power for 32 years. The main targets of the violence were ethnic Chinese Indonesians, but most of the casualties were caused by a massive fire and occurred among looters. It was estimated that more than a thousand people died in the riots. At least 168 cases of rape were reported, and material damage was valued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Friday (2008)
Bloody Friday may refer to: *Bloody Friday (1919), also known as the Battle of George Square, a riot in Glasgow in 1919 *Bloody Friday (Minneapolis), a police shooting of pickets in Minneapolis in 1934 *Bloody Friday (1968), demonstrations against the Brazilian military regime and civil responses to police repression * Bloody Friday (1970), an attack by construction workers on students protesting the Vietnam War *Bloody Friday (1972), a series of bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army *Bloody Friday (1993), an ethnic cleansing against the Kongo during the Angolan Civil War *Bloody Friday (1998), a confrontation between university students and police forces during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia * Bloody Friday (2008), the stock market crash on 24 October 2008, which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices * Bloody Friday (2015), a series of terrorist attacks, involving mainly the Islami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock Market Crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock In finance, stock (also capital stock) consists of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.Longman Business English Dictionary: "stock - ''especially AmE'' one of the shares into which ownership of a company ... prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic factors. They often follow speculation and economic bubbles. A stock market crash is a social phenomenon where external economic events combine with crowd psychology in a positive feedback loop where selling by some market participants drives more market participants to sell. Generally speaking, crashes usually occur under the following conditions: a prolonged period of rising stock prices (a Market trend#Market terminology, bull market) and excessive economic optimism, a market where price–earnings ratios exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
