On this day, Nov. 23, in 1979, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life in prison for the bombing that killed Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others. The bombing happened on Aug. 27, 1979, when McMahon and other IRA members detonated a bomb that they hid on Mountbatten’s fishing vessel. The assassination was the first IRA strike against the British royal family.
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