1920 Further sectarian violence in Belfast. By the end of the month c. 400 Catholic families had been driven from their homes and 22 people had lost their lives.
1990 Brian Keenan, a teacher from Belfast, was released after spending almost five years imprisoned in extreme conditions as a hostage of a Shi’ah militia group in Beirut, Lebanon.
1968 The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) held its first march from Coalisland to Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.
1962 Anew MacMaster (68), actor-manager and brother-in-law of Mícheál MacLiammóir, died.
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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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