1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) was founded by a coalition of political figures who had been prominent in the civil rights struggle of the late 1960s. The first leader was the West Belfast MP Gerry Fitt.
1976 The remains of William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw Haw’, Nazi propagandist executed for treason in 1946, were reinterred in Galway’s Bohermore cemetery.
1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) was formed in Belfast by a coalition of political figures who had been prominent in the Civil Rights struggle of the late 1960s.The party was initially led by Gerry Fitt, MP for West Belfast.
1968 A five-nation Warsaw Pact force, led by the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia.
1879 Over 20 local people claim to have seen a vision of Our Lady, St Joseph and St John over a two-hour period in Knock, Co. Mayo.
1861 Queen Victoria arrived on her third visit to Ireland. During her ten-day stay she visited the Curragh, where her eldest son, later Edward VII, was undergoing military training, and spent three days in Killarney as a guest of leading landlords Lord Castlerosse and Colonel Herbert.
1973 The Derry city coroner, Major Hubert O’Neill, described the actions of the British Parachute Regiment on ‘Bloody Sunday’ as ‘sheer unadulterated murder’.
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1960 Down, captained by Kieran Mussen, became the first team from Northern Ireland to win the Sam Maguire Cup in Gaelic football when they defeated Kerry 2-10 to 0-8.
1917 Thomas Ashe, teacher and revolutionary, died in Mountjoy Jail as a result of force-feeding.Thomas Ashe (32) died in Mountjoy Prison after being forcibly fed whilst on hunger strike.
1914 On a two-day visit to Ireland, Prime Minister H.H. Asquith shared a platform with John Redmond at a recruiting meeting at the Mansion House.
1917 The 1916 veteran and republican leader Thomas Ashe dies in Dublin’s Mater Hospital after being force-fed by the British authorities while on hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison.