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August 19

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 […]

August 10

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 […]

August 07

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 […]

July 19

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 […]

June 23

1919 RIC District Inspector Michael Hunt was shot dead by Irish Volunteers in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the most senior RIC officer to be killed up to that date. 1916Nationalist delegates […]

March 26

1922 An army convention held in the Mansion House, attended by 220 delegates representing 52 of the IRA’s 73 brigades, repudiated the authority of Dáil Éireann.
2000 Vladimir Putin, who had served as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for sixteen years, was elected president of Russia in succession to Boris Yeltsin.
1920 Alan Bell, a magistrate investigating funding of the republican movement, was shot dead by Michael Collins’s ‘squad’.
1932 Sir Horace Plunkett (78), pioneer of agricultural cooperation and first president of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (1894), died.
1931 T.M. (Timothy) Healy, barrister, parliamentary correspondent of The Nation, Irish Party MP and governor-general of the Irish Free State (1922–8), died.
1856 William Ferguson Massey, prime minister of New Zealand (1912–25), born in Limavady, Co. Derry.