2011 Event Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland's Croke Park in Dublin, where the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920 occurred during the Irish War of Independence 2010 Event Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen they believe were involved in the massacre of 72 migrants at Tamaulipas 2010 Event The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed 2010 Event Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009 1990 Event China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) 1987 Event Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre 1982 Event Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1982 Event Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins 1979 Death Ali Hassan Salameh, Abu Hassan, killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes 1978 Event 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yankees out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 1978 Event 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-0 1978 Event 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 13-2 1978 Event 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yankees beat Red Sox 15-3 1977 Event Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes 1977 Event France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics 1972 Event Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre 1971 Event U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life 1971 Event William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre 1971 Event 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1969 Event Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial 1969 Event 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported 1969 Event U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 1968 Event My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die 1962 Event 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria 1960 Event Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC 1954 Birthday Brinke Stevens, Charlene Brinkman, California, actress, Slumber Party Massacre 1944 Birthday Rita Mae Brown, actress, Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre 1942 Event Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173 1941 Event Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno 1937 Event Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1937 Event Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1933 Event Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob 1931 Birthday Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana, Jonestown Massacre 1929 Event St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) 1929 Event St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed 1919 Event British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1918 Event Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda 1915 Event Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1890 Event U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1886 Event Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed 1873 Event Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) 1868 Event Opelousas Massacre at St. Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed) 1866 Event Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre 1861 Event Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia 1857 Event Cawnpore England massacre 1856 Event Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas 1819 Event Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1782 Event Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians 1778 Event Iroquois Indians in New York kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre 1778 Event British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa 1777 Event Paoli massacre 1770 Event Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1770 Death Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre 1649 Event Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists 1648 Event 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre 1622 Event 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown, Virginia; 347 slain 1605 Event Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre 1572 Event King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants 1565 Event Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French 1500 Event "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione and Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre 1349 Event 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots 1349 Event Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1349 Event Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 1190 Event Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England 1190 Event Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England 1096 Event Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm 1002 Event English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
