1922 In reprisal for the killings of Catholics in south Armagh, the IRA attacked a number of Presbyterian farmhouses in the townlands of Altanaveigh and Lisdrumliska. Six people were killed and a number of others badly wounded.
1972 Five men were arrested during a bungled break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington. Their connections with the Richard Nixon re-election campaign committee were to lead to a constitutional crisis.
1981 Nora Connolly-O’Brien, daughter of James Connolly and former senator, died.
1922 In reprisal for the deaths of Catholics in South Armagh, the IRA attacked a number of Presbyterian farmhouses in the townlands of Altanaveigh and Lisdrumliska. Six people were murdered, including a husband and wife and a father and son, and a number of others were badly wounded.
2013 The 39th G8 summit of the world’s richest industrialised countries opened in the Lough Erne Resort, Co. Fermanagh. It was President Vladimir Putin’s last summit. Russia had joined the forum in 1997.
1974 An IRA bomb caused extensive damage to Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the British Houses of Parliament.
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Personal Histories
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1997 In the British general election, the Labour Party, under Tony Blair, secured a landslide victory, winning 418 seats.
1171 Diarmaid MacMurrough (c. 61), king of Leinster and key instigator of the Norman invasion of Ireland, died in Ferns ‘without a will, without penance, without unction, as his evil deeds deserved’, according to the Four Masters.
1171 Dermot MacMurrough, king of Leinster, who provoked the Norman invasion, died in Ferns, Co. Wexford.
1170 A Norman force of 40 knights, 60 other horsemen and 500 archers, led by Raymond le Gros Fitzgerald and his uncle, Maurice Fitzgerald, landed at Baginbun, Bannow Bay, Co. Wexford.
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