1971 Internment was introduced by the Stormont government with the arrest of 342 men, of whom 226 were detained. Thirteen lives were lost that day during widespread violence, particularly in West and North Belfast.
1920 The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act extended the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (1914) to allow the authorities to impose curfews, restrict movement of traffic, establish military courts of inquiry to replace coroners’ inquests, and provide for trial of civilians by court martial and imprisonment of Sinn Féiners on suspicion.
1971 Internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland. In the violence that followed, 22 were killed over a four-day period, including eleven by the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy, West Belfast, in what has become known as the ‘Ballymurphy massacre’.
1969 The actress Sharon Tate was murdered along with four others in her Hollywood home, which she shared with her husband, the director Roman Polanski, by followers of Charles Manson.
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Personal Histories
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people both in Ireland and around the world. It is hoped
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giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
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1968 Captain Terence O’Neill, prime minister of Northern Ireland, appealed for calm in his ‘Ulster at the Crossroads’ television address.
1960 D.A. Chart, archivist, historian and social scientist who was Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (1924–48), died.
1861 John O’Donovan, official with the Ordnance Survey (1830–42) and leading scholar in the areas of Irish topography, history, genealogy and language, died. His works include translations of the Brehon Laws and the Annals of the Four Masters (1848–51).