1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) was founded by a coalition of political figures who had been prominent in the civil rights struggle of the late 1960s. The first leader was the West Belfast MP Gerry Fitt.
1976 The remains of William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw Haw’, Nazi propagandist executed for treason in 1946, were reinterred in Galway’s Bohermore cemetery.
1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) was formed in Belfast by a coalition of political figures who had been prominent in the Civil Rights struggle of the late 1960s.The party was initially led by Gerry Fitt, MP for West Belfast.
1968 A five-nation Warsaw Pact force, led by the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia.
1879 Over 20 local people claim to have seen a vision of Our Lady, St Joseph and St John over a two-hour period in Knock, Co. Mayo.
1861 Queen Victoria arrived on her third visit to Ireland. During her ten-day stay she visited the Curragh, where her eldest son, later Edward VII, was undergoing military training, and spent three days in Killarney as a guest of leading landlords Lord Castlerosse and Colonel Herbert.
1973 The Derry city coroner, Major Hubert O’Neill, described the actions of the British Parachute Regiment on ‘Bloody Sunday’ as ‘sheer unadulterated murder’.
