l Perhaps the most famous event in George Square was the 1919 Black Friday rally, when campaigners protesting against a 56-hour working week held an enormous rally, with at least 90,000 demonstrators filling the square and the surrounding streets.
The meeting descended into violence between the protesters and the police, with the Riot Act being read. The Liberal Government, fearing a Bolshevik revolution, deployed armed troops and tanks in the square.
l The square, laid out in 1781, later provided a home to political hustings, meetings, annual Remembrance Day parades and protests against the poll tax and Iraq War.
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