1919 Detective Sergeant Pat ‘the Dog’ Smyth of G Division was assassinated in Drumcondra, Dublin, the first DMP G Division detective to die in the War of Independence. (See pp 40–3.)
1990 Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, was assassinated by the Provisional IRA, who placed a bomb under his car at his home in East Sussex.
1986 Leading Seaman James Magennis VC (66), from West Belfast, the only serviceman from Northern Ireland to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II, died.
1966 England won the World Cup, beating West Germany 4–2 in Wembley.
1914 Tsar Nicholas II ordered a full mobilisation of Russian forces. Germany demanded that Russia cease her mobilisation within 24 hours and that France announce her neutrality. The Russians failed to reply. The French refused to comply.
1862 Eugene O’Curry, scholar, author notably of Manners and customs of the ancient Irish (1873), died.
1818 Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights (1847), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire.
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1970 Bank strike in the Republic of Ireland (until 17 November).
1919 Professor J.P. Mahaffy (80), scholar, provost of TCD since 1914, died.
1970 In Northern Ireland the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) assumed the duties of the Ulster Special Constabulary (‘B’ Specials), now officially stood down. Over the 22 years of the regiment’s existence 192 members, mainly off-duty, were shot dead by republican paramilitaries.
1923 James Larkin returned to Ireland from the USA. A month later, his disagreements with William O’Brien of the ITGWU would split the labour movement.
2008 Bertie Ahern became the sixth Irish leader to address both houses of the US Congress.
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