Humphrey Atkins27 October 1980
Faces the beginning of the first H-Block hunger strike.
Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Faces the beginning of the first H-Block hunger strike.
Rejects political status for republican prisoners during the first hunger strike.
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