June 17

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  • 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.
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