On This Day

Richard Harris accused opposition leader Edward Heath of trying to slander his plea for peace, justice and reform in Ireland

UTV provided a platform to debate substantial day-to-day issues beyond those of religion and identity, such as economics

The Boston Globe said it had learned from a police source that Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev would enter Boston’s Sidney Faber Cancer Centre sometime later in the day

The people who became known as the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were subsequently wrongfully convicted and imprisoned

SDLP members accused the Rev Ian Paisley and his UUUC colleagues of attempting to wreck the peace plan

Loyalist tell British government they will not accept a peace bought at the price of compromise and surrender

Food prices rise again as cost-of-living crisis continues

Watergate scandal forced US President Richard Nixon from office

Hope that temporary ceasefire brokered with IRA could become permanent

End to restriction across north on movements at night