December 13

2000 President Bill Clinton visited Northern Ireland for the final time in an official capacity, addressing a massive crowd at the Odyssey Arena. 1867 In a failed attempt to rescue Colonel Richard O’Sullivan Burke, Fenians blasted a wall at London’s Clerkenwell house of detention, killing twelve people. 1868 Revd Henry Cooke (80), theologian and popular ... Read more

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