1666 The Great Fire of London, which destroyed 400 acres of the city but cost just nine lives, began in a bakehouse in Pudding Lane. 1022 Malachy the Great (Máel-Sechnaill), […]
Read More →1946 Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), born in Hope, Arkansas. 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca (38), Spanish poet and playwright, was executed by Nationalist forces during the […]
Read More →1976 In West Belfast, three children were killed and their mother seriously injured when a car, driven by an IRA man who was shot dead by a British soldier, careered […]
Read More →1986 Peter Robinson MP, latterly first minister for Northern Ireland, was arrested in Clontibret, Co. Monaghan, after invading the village at the head of a 500-strong loyalist mob in protest […]
Read More →1920 Nineteen were killed and over 50 wounded in four days of continuous sectarian violence in Derry. 1997 The IRA announced a restoration of its cease-fire, with a complete cessation […]
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