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    9 Feb - 1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London

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    Post by Kitkat Sun 09 Feb 2020, 15:20

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    9 Feb - 1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London 300px-South_Quay_bombing_-_9.2.96

    The London Docklands bombing (also known as the South Quay bombing or erroneously referred to as the Canary Wharf bombing) occurred on 9 February 1996, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb in South Quay (which is outside Canary Wharf). More...



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