September 05

1820 Pope Pius VII approved the Irish Christian Brothers, founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice. 1926 Forty-eight lives were lost when fire broke out in a cinema in Drumcollagher, Co. Limerick, during a showing of The Ten Commandments. 1972 Eleven Israeli athletes were killed when the Arab terrorist group Black September struck at the Olympic Games ... Read more

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