9 November 1960: Eight Irish soldiers of the Thirty-third battalion serving in #Congo with the @UN were killed in a ambush by tribesman in secessionist Katanga province #Ireland
OTD. On 4 November 1983 the IRA planted a bomb in a lecture theatre in the Ulster Polytechnic, Jordanstown. The explosion killed two RUC officers who were attending the lecture. A third RUC officer died from his injuries on 13 August 1984. https://t.co/GysF99RHNs
OTD. Anniversary of the Greysteel killings at the Rising Sun Bar on 30 Oct 1993. Members of the UDA/UFF shot dead 7 people in the bar and injured 13, one of whom died on 14 Apr 1994. Shootings were part of a week of killings following the Shankill Bombing. https://t.co/95z29CKXup
19 April 1972: The Widgery Inquiry released the report of its investigation of Bloody Sunday and it largely exonerated the British Army https://t.co/7Fqtv94wJi