The Land League is outlawed

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calendar 1971

Explosion at Clarkston Toll shopping centre, killing, 12.

October 20, 1971

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calendar 1892

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

October 20, 1892

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calendar 1836

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist, born

October 20, 1836

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calendar 1808

Michael William Balfe, composer, dies in Dublin

October 20, 1808

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calendar 1794

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

October 20, 1794

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calendar 1775

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

October 20, 1775

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calendar 1674

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

October 20, 1674