The Birmingham pub bombings
1974 · Event
IRA bombs in two Birmingham pubs kill 21 people and injure 182 — the worst attack on the British mainland in the conflict. It brings the Prevention of Terrorism Act within a week, and the wrongful conviction of the 'Birmingham Six', whose sixteen-year fight to clear their names shakes British justice.
On these timelines: The Troubles, United Kingdom (combined), Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Master
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- Omagh bombing (1998)
- The IRA declares a ceasefire (1994)
- Bobby Sands is elected from his death-bed (1981)
- Battle of the Bogside sparks the crisis (1969)
- Mountbatten and Warrenpoint (1979)
- Operation Demetrius (internment) (1971)
- The Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)
Around 1974
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)