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On "Black Monday" (8 February 1886), apartments for rent London protesters rallied against unemployment; this led to a riot in Pall Mall. A larger riot (called "Bloody Sunday") occurred in the square on 13 November 1887.

One of the first significant demonstrations of the modern era was held in the square on 19 September 1961 by the Committee of 100, which included the philosopher apartments for rent London Bertrand Russell. The protesters rallied for peace and against war and nuclear weapons.

Throughout the 1980s, a continuous anti-apartheid protest was held outside of South Africa House. More recently, the square has hosted the Poll Tax Riots apartments for rent London (1990) and anti-war demonstrations opposing the Afghanistan war and the Iraq war.[24] The square was also scene to a large vigil held shortly after the terrorist bombings in London on Thursday 7 July 2005.[25]

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On 6 July 2005 Trafalgar Square was a gathering place to hear the announcement that London had won the bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In 2007, Trafalgar Square hosted apartments for rent London the opening ceremonies of the Tour de France.

[edit] VE Day celebrations

Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was 8 May 1945, the date when the Allies during the Second World War formally celebrated apartments for rent London the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

Trafalgar Square was filled with British subjects wanting to hear the formal announcement by Sir Winston Churchill that the war was over. Trafalgar Square was used as a place of apartments for rent London celebration and people from all over the country came there.

On Sunday 8 May 2005 the BBC held a concert to celebrate the 60th anniversary of VE Day which was hosted by Eamonn Holmes and Natasha Kaplinsky. Many people who lived during the war attended, and many of the much younger apartments for rent London generation, but most importantly many old veterans came and told the stories of their hardships during the six years of war.

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On 21 June 2002, 12,000 people gathered in the square to watch the England national apartments for rent London football team's World Cup quarter-final against Brazil on giant video screens which had been erected specially for the occasion.[26]

In the early 21st century, Trafalgar Square has become the location to the climax for victory parades; firstly apartments for rent London for the England national rugby union team to celebrate victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup on 9 December 2003, and then on 13 September 2005, for the England national cricket team's victory against the Australia national cricket team in The Ashes.

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