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

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As thousands of spectators were leaving the ground by stairway 13, it appears that someone, possibly a child being carried on his father's shoulders, fell, causing a massive chain-reaction pile-up of people. Over 200 people were injured.
(2 January 1971)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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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.