<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" id="mwAT8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: Eighteen British soldiers are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenpoint_ambush" id="mwAUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Warrenpoint ambush">killed in an ambush</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" id="mwAUE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenpoint" id="mwAUI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Warrenpoint">Warrenpoint</a>, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Banner" id="mwAUM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Banner">Operation Banner</a>. An IRA bomb also kills <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_royal_family" id="mwAUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British royal family">British royal family</a> member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma" id="mwAUU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma">Lord Mountbatten</a> and three others on his boat at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullaghmore,_County_Sligo" id="mwAUY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mullaghmore, County Sligo">Mullaghmore</a>, Republic of Ireland.