January 08

1871 James Craig, Unionist politician and first prime minister of Northern Ireland, born in Sydenham, Belfast, the son of a wealthy whiskey distiller. 1979 An explosion on Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, killed 50 and destroyed the French tanker Betelgeuse. 1989 A Boeing 737, en route from Heathrow to Belfast, crashed on the M1 ... Read more

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