Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THURSDAY, DECEMBER...
Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence [1962], with John Wayne and James Stewart, with a D.W. Griffith short, Thursday...
...THURSDAY, DECEMBER...
...Thursday evening, two I.R.A. bombs exploded inside pubs in Birmingham, England's second largest city, leaving 19 people dead and 184 injured. It was the worst single bloodletting since the present agony in Northern Ireland began-costlier than even "Bloody Friday," July 21, 1972, when twelve people were slaughtered and 130 injured in a series of bombings in Belfast...
There was little doubt about the reason for the Birmingham atrocity. Two weeks ago, an I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce...