Beginning of the Hunger Strike by seven Republican prisoners in the H Blocks at Long Kesh
The hunger strike begins on October 27, 1980, when seven Republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh (Maze Prison) refuse food in protest of the British government’s withdrawal of Special Category Status for paramilitary prisoners. Their demands include the right to wear their own clothes, avoid prison labor, and associate freely. They are later joined by three female prisoners in Armagh Prison, marking a unified protest across gender lines. This first hunger strike, though ended without deaths, set the stage for the more widely known 1981 hunger strike.
Alan Wells won Olympic
Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band officially disbands on their 50th anniversary, 1978
Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band, founded in 1928, was a pipe band based in Grangemouth, Scotland. The band was named after, and affiliated with, the company Muirhead & Sons, a sawmill based in Grangemouth and founded by George A. Muirhead in the 1880s