Nick Maxwell

1971 With over 4,000 refugees from Northern Ireland in refugee camps in the Republic, Taoiseach Jack Lynch called for the abolition of Stormont. 1970 Constables Samuel Donaldson (23) and Robert Millar (26) were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb hidden in a stolen car parked a mile from Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh. They were the first … Read more

1971 John McKerr (49), a father of two, was shot dead in Ballymurphy, West Belfast, the last of eleven unarmed civilians with no paramilitary affiliations killed by the British Parachute Regiment in that area over a three-day period. 1919 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate and philanthropist who donated c. $350 million to charities, foundations … Read more

1971 Internment was introduced by the Stormont government with the arrest of 342 men, of whom 226 were detained. Thirteen lives were lost that day during widespread violence, particularly in West and North Belfast. 1920 The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act extended the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (1914) to allow … Read more

1980 Five adults and five children died in a fire at the Central Hotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal. 1969 Bulmer Hobson, leading member of the Irish Volunteers and IRB prior to the Easter Rising, died. 1966 The Chinese Communist Party central committee endorsed Chairman Mao Zedong’s ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’, which was to claim the lives … Read more

1962 Marilyn Monroe (36), film actress, died in Los Angeles.