This Day in History: 19 June 1980

This Day in History recalls June 19, 1980, when thousands gathered at Queen’s Park in Grenada to honour two Revolution Heroes: Tubal Uriah ‘Buzz’ Butler and Alister Strachan. A bomb exploded under the grandstand, injuring many and killing three young women. The event is linked to a Radio Free Grenada broadcast by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop that evening, cited in Beverley A. Steele’s Grenada: A History of its People and the excerpt New Martyrs, New Heroes, New Patriots. The incident sits within the broader context of Grenada’s revolutionary period, and remains a pivotal moment in the country’s recent history.