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Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

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Ian Gow

British politician (1937–1990)

Ian Reginald Edward Gow was a British politician and solicitor. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 1974, until he was assassinated in 1990 by a car bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) outside…
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Irish Republican Army

Paramilitary organisations in Ireland

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various resistance organizations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dominantly Catholic and dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism, the belief that all of…
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July 30

Day of the year

July 30 is the 211th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 154 days remain until the end of the year.
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