June 17

1922 In reprisal for the killings of Catholics in south Armagh, the IRA attacked a number of Presbyterian farmhouses in the townlands of Altanaveigh and Lisdrumliska. Six people were killed and a number of others badly wounded. 1972 Five men were arrested during a bungled break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate ... Read more

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