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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
April 24, 1916Some 1,600 Irish nationalists, the Irish Volunteers, launch the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin, including the General Post Office. It is provoked by impatience with the lack of home rule and is put down by British forces several days later. Michael Collins, a member of Sinn Fein, leads the guerrilla warfare.
April 25, 1971No less than 200,000 American citizens demonstrate in Washington, DC, to protest the war i
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