Ireland

countries: Ireland

Total results: 2747

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Aircraft carrier HMS Dasher blew up and sank off the island of Arran, loss of 350 crew

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First US troops (over, 10,000 men) disembark from Queen Mary on the River Clyde.

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Prince George, the Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI, killed when his flying boat crashed into Eagles Rock in Caithness, apparently en route to Iceland.

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Mary MacSwiney, Irish patriot, dies

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Charles Harper, born

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Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, killed

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Stephen Hayes, a former IRA chief of staff, is kidnapped on 30 June; he later claims to have been court martialled and tortured by the IRA; Seán McCaughey is convicted of his kidnapping on this date

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Rudolf Hess, Hitlers deputy, descended by parachute into Scotland at Eaglesham.

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Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe

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