Related events:
Friday 18th of March 1949 (+) — Snooker player Alex Higgins is born
Friday 14th of September 1951 (+) — Irish republican hunger striker Joe McDonnel is born
Sunday 16th of October 1955 (+) — Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty is born
Friday 21st of July 1972 (x) — 11 Die and over 130 are wounded in 26 simultaneous bomb-attacks by the the Irish Republican Army At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half hour period. The event was remembered as 'Bloody Friday'. Tuesday 24th of August 2010 (-) — Snooker player Alex Higgins dies of a combination of malnutrition, pneumonia, tooth decay and a bronchial condition Higgins had cancerous growths removed from his mouth in 1994 and 1996. He lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life.
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