A MOMENT IN HISTORY
Downing Street mortar attack
1991 CE · United Kingdom, Europe · War
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, on 7 February 1991. The goal was to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet, who were meeting to discuss the Gulf War.
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