Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Blessington, Leinster, Ireland || Russborough House

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Warner blew himself to pieces in his Thor Motor Coach Chateau recreational vehicle, injuring eight people and damaging dozens of buildings. A broadcast from loudspeakers on the vehicle warned that there was a bomb inside and played snippets from the 1964 song 'Downtown' by Petula Clark. Prior to the explosion a 15-minute countdown was broadcast.
(25 December 2020)

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Russborough House

Blessington, Leinster, Ireland.

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Friday 26th of April 1974 (x) — 19 Old Masters including a Goya, a Vermeer and a Gainsborough are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Irish Republican Army .
The IRA intended to hold the paintings to ransom in exchange for the transfer of IRA members Dolours Price and Marian Price who had been convicted of car-bombings in England. All the stolen paintings were recovered in County Cork a few weeks later.