October 20

October 20, 1971

Explosion at Clarkston Toll shopping centre, killing, 12.

October 20, 1892

Birth near Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan of General Eoin O’Duffy, first commissioner of the Garda Síochána (Blue Shirts)

October 20, 1881

The Land League is outlawed

October 20, 1836

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist, born

October 20, 1808

Michael William Balfe, composer, dies in Dublin

October 20, 1794

Duel between John Gustavus Crosbie and Sir Barry Denny, the sitting MP, the first fire Denny is shot fatally

October 20, 1775

Two hundred passengers are lost in the shipwrecks of the brigs Trevor Totty and Nonpareil

October 20, 1674

Birth of James Logan, Colonial statesman and scholar in Lurgan, Co. Armagh