1987 Eleven people were killed and over 60 injured when an IRA bomb exploded during a service at the war memorial in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, on Remembrance Day.

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1917 Edgar Degas (83), French painter regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, over half of whose works depict dancers, died. 1972 NIHE Limerick was officially opened by Taoiseach […]

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1819 Birth of Gustave Courbet, French painter—notably of A Burial at Ornans (1850–1)—and pioneer of nineteenth-century realism. 1967 Spencer Treacy (67), acclaimed Hollywood actor who won consecutive Academy Awards for Best […]

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1997 The Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, won the British general election by a landslide, ending eighteen years of Conservative rule. 1943 Sir Basil Brooke became prime minister of Northern […]

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1908 Luke Livingstone Macassey (c. 65), civil engineer and barrister, died. Macassey is remembered as Belfast’s ‘water hero’, the visionary engineer who brought a reliable supply of clean water to […]

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