1987 The Eksund, carrying 150 tons of armaments believed to be for the IRA, was seized by French customs authorities.
1984 Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, was assassinated in Delhi by Sikh members of her bodyguard.
1892 Eoin O’Duffy, IRA activist, first commissioner of the Garda Síochána (1922) and Blueshirt leader in the 1930s, born.
1816 ‘The burning of Wild Goose Lodge’, an agrarian outrage on the County Louth/Meath border, in which five residents and three servants died when a property was set on fire by a 100-strong group of men.
