On this day in history...

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1972 - The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.

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1985 - The Football Association, supported by Margaret Thatcher, bans English clubs from playing in Europe following the Heysel stadium tragedy.

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1985 - More than 300 people are arrested as police intercept a convoy of hippies going to stonehenge.

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Except that one of the >300 was not:
A hippy
In a convoy
And most definitely not plotting a course for Stonehenge...

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1994 - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.

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1982 - Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, is critically ill in hospital after being shot on a London street.

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1944 World War II: A cafe in the French town of Benouville was the first place to be liberated from German occupation when British paratroopers seized control of a vital canal bridge in advance of the main Allied D-Day landings in Normandy the following morning on 6th June.

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1972 - World leaders attend the funeral in Windsor of the former King of Britain who abdicated in 1936.

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1944 - Thousands of Allied troops are landing on the beaches of Normandy in Northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.

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2000 - The UK prime minister (Tony Blair) is heckled and criticised by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.