1971 Clifford Loring (18) of the Royal Artillery Regiment was shot dead by an IRA sniper whilst on checkpoint duty in West Belfast, the 35th death since the introduction of internment that month.
1994 The IRA announced a ‘complete cessation of military operations’.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales (36), was killed in a road traffic accident in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. Her funeral, a week later, attracted a worldwide television audience of over one billion.
1969 Figures published showed that ten deaths had occurred in Northern Ireland during the violence of July/August; 154 people had suffered gunshot wounds and 745 had been injured in other ways; 170 homes had been destroyed and another 417 damaged. Catholic-owned or occupied property accounted for 83.5% of the damage.
1994 The IRA announced ‘a complete cessation of military operations’.
1767 Henry Joy McCracken, United Irishman, born in High Street, Belfast.
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1972 Eight people, including four members of the IRA and two women, were killed when an IRA bomb exploded prematurely in the Short Strand area of East Belfast.
1970 Former ministers Charles J. Haughey and Neil Blaney, along with Captain Kelly and Albert Luykx, were arrested and charged with conspiring to import arms and ammunition into the state.
1974 In Northern Ireland the power-sharing Executive, established in January that year under the terms of the Sunningdale Agreement, collapsed in the wake of the Ulster Workers’ Council strike.
1970 Ex-Fianna Fáil ministers Charles J. Haughey and Neil Blaney, who had been dismissed by Taoiseach Jack Lynch three weeks earlier, were charged with conspiring to import arms and ammunition. Also charged were Captain James Kelly, a former Army intelligence officer, John Kelly, a prominent Belfast Republican, and Albert Luyckx, a Belgian businessman.