... 1998 (10 years ago today), 29 persons, among them 9 children "and a woman pregnant with twins," died in Omagh, following "the worst paramilitary bombing since the start
of the Northern Ireland conflict three decades ago." Claiming responsibility was the "Real IRA -- a breakaway group formed after the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire."... 1974, assassin's bullets intended for Republic of Korea President Park Chung Hee shot and killed Hee's wife, 1st Lady Yook Young Soo, and a 17-year-old girl, Chang Bong Wha, while Park was giving a Liberation Day speech before 1,500 people at a theater in Seoul. Later that year Korea honored Yook with the stamp at right.
