1979 Lord Mountbatten, his nephew and a 15-year-old boy killed by an IRA bomb on their boat. That afternoon the IRA killed 18 soldiers at Narrow Water, Co. Down.
1969 The British home secretary, James Callaghan, toured troubled parts of Belfast. The following day, from an upstairs bedroom window of a house near Free Derry Corner, he made a speech by megaphone, recognising past wrongs and promising justice in the future.
1923 General election in the Irish Free State: Cumann na nGaedheal took 63 seats whilst Sinn Féin, with a policy of abstentionism, took 44.
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