<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Motorman" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Motorman">Operation Motorman</a>, the British Army re-takes the urban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="No-go area">no-go areas</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. It is the biggest British military operation since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a> of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish War of Independence">Irish War of Independence</a>. Later that day, nine civilians are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudy_bombing" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Claudy bombing">killed by car bombs</a> in the village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudy" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Claudy">Claudy</a>.