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North, Oliver (1943- )

US Marine lieutenant colonel. In 1981 he joined the staff of the National Security Council (NSC), where he supervised the mining of Nicaraguan harbours in 1983, an air‐force bombing raid on Libya in 1986, and an arms‐for‐hostages deal with Iran in 1985, which, when uncovered in 1986 (Irangate), forced his dismissal and trial.

North was born into a San Antonio, Texas, military family and was a graduate of the US Naval Academy. He led a Marine platoon in the Vietnam War 1968–69. After working as a Marine instructor, as well as participating in a number of overseas secret missions, he became the NSC deputy director for political military affairs.

After Irangate, North was convicted on felony charges of obstructing Congress, mutilating government documents, and taking an illegal gratuity. In September 1991, all charges against him were dropped on the grounds that, since his evidence before Congressional committees July 1987 had been widely televised, it was impossible to give him a fair trial. He was unsuccessful as Virginia's Republican candidate for the Senate in the 1994 midterm elections.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Victoria's Wars
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Zimbabwe's Political History
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Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe)
The Boys of H Company
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The Zulu War of 1879
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The American Civil War: The Road to War
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Zimbabwe's Political History
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4 January 1998
Loyalist prisoners in Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, vote to withdraw support for the Ulster Peace Process. They claim that too many concessions have been made to Republicans.
5 January 1993

Shetland Oil disaster in the North Sea.

9 January 1998
Northern Ireland Secretary Dr Mo Mowlam makes a controversial visit to the Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland to talk to Loyalist and Republican terrorists.
16 January 1981
The Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP Bernadette McAliskey and her husband are shot by gunmen who burst into their home in Northern Ireland.
19 January 2001

In North Wales, baby twins are taken into care by social services from a couple who bought the children for £8000 from America over the internet.

23 January 1968

The American navy intelligence vessel, USS Pueblo, is captured off the coast of North Korea.

24 January 2001

In Britain, Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland Secretary, resigns from the cabinet over a row concerning a passport application from an Indian billionaire. It the second time Mandelson has had to reign from the Cabinet.

26 January 1970

The Vietnam War: US Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in North Vietnam.

30 January 1972

'Bloody Sunday': British troops shoot dead 13 people during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The troops argued that they opened fire in response to shots from gunmen in a nearby block of flats.

4 February 1998
Thousands die as Northern Afghanistan is hit by an earthquake.
12 February 1989

In Northern Ireland, loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Freedom Fighters kill prominent lawyer Pat Finucane.

13 February 1965

The Vietnam War: President Johnson decides to undertake the sustained bombing of North Vietnam, known as Operation Rolling Thunder.

17 February 2005

Seven people are arrested and more than £2 million is recovered by Irish police investigating the £26 million Northern Bank robbery, which touch place in Belfast in December 2004.

21 February 1970

The Vietnam War: American National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger begins secret peace talks with North Vietnamese representative Le Duc Tho, in Paris.

28 February 2001

In Selby, North Yorkshire a train crashes into a car which had veered off the motorway, killing ten people.

4 March 1967
The first gas from the North Sea is piped ashore at Durham in northern England
8 March 1865
Digging begins to build a canal in the Netherlands to connect Amsterdam with the North Sea.
9 March 1976
42 skiers are killed when a cable car plunges to ground in north Italy.
15 March 1999
Prominent solicitor Rosemary Nelson is killed by a car bomb at Lurgan, Co Armagh in Northern Ireland.
18 March 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is set up between the United States, Britain and seven other Western European countries to jointly agree defence and security issues.
19 March 1988
Two British soldiers in civilian clothes blunder into an IRA funeral in Northern Ireland and are kicked and beaten to death.
25 March 1966
North face of the Eiger is scaled for the first time.
27 March 1980
Oilrig platform Alexander Keiland overturns in North Sea killing 123.
28 March 1964
The pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, begins transmitting from a ship in the North Sea.
4 April 1949
Twelve countries sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington.
6 April 1909
American Arctic explorer US Commander Robert Edwin Peary becomes the first man to reach the North Pole - at his sixth attempt in 15 years.
10 April 1955
In England, Ruth Ellis shoots her lover David Blakely outside a pub in Hampstead in North London. Following her murder trial, Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
12 April 1966
American bombers carry out their first strike against North Vietnam.
14 April 1912
British-built luxury liner Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks. 1500 passengers and crew are killed.
15 April 1964
Manchester United footballer George Best makes his debut for Northern Ireland against Wales.
17 April 1421
An estimated 100,000 people drown in Holland when the North Sea breaks through the protective dykes at Dort.
21 April 1873
Formation of the Mounties, the Canadian North-West Mounted Police.
22 April 1975
The first South Vietnamese refugees arrive on the western coast of the United States as Communist forces from North Vietnam take control of the country.
30 April 1975
Official end to the Vietnam War when the South Vietnamese Government surrenders to North Vietnam. Fighting had continued despite the signing of a peace treaty in 1973.
4 May 1896
First edition of British daily newspaper The Daily Mail. Founded by Lord Northcliffe.
6 May 1966
At Chester Crown Court in Britain, Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are found guilty of torturing and killing several children before burying their bodies on the Moors north of Manchester.
12 May 1943
World War II: the German commander in North Africa, General von Arnim, surrenders to the Allies.
13 May 1996
Over 600 people are killed by a tornado in the northern Bangladesh district of Tangail.
19 May 1993
All 132 passengers and crew are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes into a jungle mountain shortly before landing at Medellin, northwest Colombia.
20 May 1774
Britain passes the Quebec Act extending its boundaries northwards to Hudson Bay and as far south as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
22 May 1998
Northern Ireland votes 'Yes' to a new peace agreement designed to end 30 years of violence between Protestants and Catholics.
23 May 1873
The North West Mounted Police is established in Canada by Act of Parliament. Its name is changed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
25 May 1916
World War I; The Battle of Jutland between the British and German fleets. Germans claim victory but fail to break British control of the North Sea.
1 June 1968
Britain and Iceland sign a formal end to the 'Cod War' over fishing rights in the North Sea.
2 June 1994
25 senior intelligence officers, involved in counter terrorism in Northern Ireland, are killed when their Chinook helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.
7 June 1921
Opening of the first Parliament of Northern Ireland.
10 June 1989
After an era of 157 years, Britain's last lightship is towed away from its position north-west of the Channel Island of Guernsey.
11 June 1907
In English county cricket, Northamptonshire are bowled out for 12 by Gloucestershire at Gloucester - the lowest total in first class cricket.
14 June 1800
Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
17 June 1982
Manchester United footballer Norman Whiteside becomes the youngest player to appear in the World Cup finals - playing for Northern Ireland against Yugoslavia in Spain aged 17 years and 41 days.
20 June 1942
World War II: German troops in North Africa captured the coastal town of Tobruk.
21 June 1990
An estimated 100,000 are killed in northern Iran following an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale.
25 June 1950
Start of the Korean War when North Korean troops invade the South.
28 June 1950
North Korean troops capture Seoul.
1 July 1998
First meeting of the historic Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast following the signing of the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
2 July 1976
North and South Vietnam are officially re-united after 20 years of war.
5 July 1989
US Army Colonel Oliver North, found guilty of being involved in the Iran-Contra affair, is fined $150,000 and given a suspended jail sentence.
6 July 1988
167 men die in explosion on board the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea.
7 July 1994
North Yemeni forces capture Aden to bring an end to the two-month civil war.
10 July 1976
A leak of weedkiller from a chemicals factory in Northern Italy forms a toxic cloud around the town of Seveso killing 40,000 animals and destroying crops.
14 July 1888
The world's first record company, the North American Phonograph Company is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by businessman Jesse L Lippincott.
19 July 1997
The Irish Republican Army, the IRA, announce a major ceasefire in its 28 year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
20 July 1974
Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus.
22 July 1974
Two days after invading northern Cyprus, Turkey accepts a United Nations resolution of a ceasefire.
25 July 1978
The world's first test tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, is born at Oldham General Hospital in the north of England.
2 August 1980
Right-wing terrorists explode a bomb at Bologna Railway Station in northern Italy which kills 84 people and injures another 100.
3 August 1958
USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, passes under the North Pole.
5 August 1958
USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, comes to the surface after passing under the North Pole.
14 August 1969
British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland - to help quell sectarian riots in Londonderry.
15 August 1998
A terrorist bomb explodes in the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone killing 28 and injuring more than 200 others. It's the biggest single incident death toll in recent Northern Ireland history. A splinter group of the IRA, calling itself the Real IRA, claims responsibility.
18 August 1587
Virginia Dare becomes the first child born of English parents in the New World - 7 days after the arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition in North Carolina.
19 August 1969
British Army takes over control of security in Northern Ireland.
26 August 1936
In Britain, the BBC transmits the first high-definition television pictures. More than 7000 people queue at the Olympia Radio Show to see the pictures being beamed onto local television sets from Alexandra Palace in north London.
27 August 1939
In Germany, a jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, makes its' first flight at Marienehe in north Germany.
28 August 1914
World War I: Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of the war. between British and German warships in the North Sea. British casualities numbered 33 killed. The German Navy lost four ships and more than 1,000 men.
29 August 1997
The British Government invites members of Sinn Fein to take part in the Northern Ireland peace talks for the first time.
31 August 1962
Mountaineers Chris Bonington and Ian Clough become first Britons to conquer the north face of the Eiger.
2 September 1916
In Northumberland, England, the last of the famous Blaydon Races - immortalised in the traditional northeast folk song.
4 September 1985
The wreck of the ocean liner 'Titanic' is photographed by remote control on the North Atlantic seabed where she sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
5 September 1990
An historic meeting in Seoul between the Prime Ministers of North and South Korea.
7 September 1838
In Britain, Grace Darling - the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, makes her famous rescue of the crew of the 'Forfarshire' which is shipwrecked off theNorthumberland coast.
8 September 1883
Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad across the United States of America
9 September 1513
In England, the Battle of Flodden Field is fought near Branxton in Northumberland. James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by English troops commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
10 September 1998
An historic face-to-face meeting in Belfast between the First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly - Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and the Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
11 September 1962
British group 'The Beatles' record their first single 'Love Me Do' at the Abbey Road Studios in north London.
12 September 1969
American President Richard Nixon orders the bombing of NorthVietnam to be resumed.
15 September 1952
Britain hands the North African area known as Eritrea, to Ethiopia.
21 September 1965
Oil company British Petroleum annouces an oil find in the North Sea.
24 September 1853
The Northern Daily Times in Liverpool becomes the first provincial daily newspapaer in England.
27 September 1825
The world's first public passenger rail service begins - between Stockton and Darlington in the north of England.
28 September 1912
Thousands of Unionists in Northern Ireland sign the Solemn League and Covenant pledging resistance to Home Rule for Ireland.
1 October 1936
In Britain, the BBC begins regular TV broadcasts from Alexandra Palace, in north London.
3 October 1981
Republican hunger-strikers at the H-block internment prison in Northern Ireland finally give up their protest after 8 months. During that time 10 of their fellow protesters died of starvation.
5 October 1936
Start of the 'Jarrow March' - around 200 unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow in northeast England begin walking to London to protest about the lack of jobs. The protestors arrive on October 31st.
6 October 1985
In Britain, a Metropolitan policeman, PC Keith Blakelock is hacked to death by up to 40 rioters on the Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham, North London.
9 October 1948
English football legend Billy Wright first captains the England international team aged 24 - against Northern Ireland.
10 October 1972
Northern Irish peace campaigner Mairead Corrigan is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
12 October 1994
In Northern Ireland, the Combined Loyalist Military Command announces a 'ceasefire' in its terrorist activities.
14 October 1939
The Royal Navy battleship, HMS Royal Oak, is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while at harbour in Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland - a liitle more than a month after the start of World War II. At least 800 British seamen are killed.
15 October 1976
In Northern Ireland, two members of a Loyalist paramilitary are each sentenced to 35 years in jail for killing three members of popular cabaret band from the Republic of Ireland.  
20 October 1935
The end of Mao Tse-Tung's 'Long March' - when thousands of Communist Party supporters march from south China to the north of the country.
21 October 1934
In China, Communist leader Mao Tse Tung and 100,000 supporters begin their 12 month 'Long March' - a 6,000 mile trek from southern China where they are being persecuted, to the north of the country.
23 October 1933
World WarII, the start of the decisive battle of El Alemein between Allied forces commanded by British Field Marshall Montgomery and the German and Italian North African armies commanded by Field Marshall Rommel. The Allies gain a significant victory at the end of 16 days' fighting.
27 October 1980
In Northern Ireland, the start of a hunger-strike by Republican prisoners interned in the Maze Prison.
29 October 1863
Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant founds the International Red Cross, after seeing the number of casualties at the Battlle of Solferino in northern Italy, and noting how many die from their untreated wounds.
3 November 1975
In Britain Queen Elizabeth II opens the North Sea pipeline - the first to be built underwater - bringing ashore 400,000 barrels a day to Grangemouth Refinery on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
5 November 1950
American General Douglas McArthur reports Chinese Communist troops are massing in North Korea.
8 November 1987
In Northern Ireland, 11 people are killed by an IRA bomb which explodes shortly before a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.
13 November 1942
World War II: British forces retake Tobruk in North Africa from the Germans.
15 November 1983
An independent Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is unilaterally proclaimed - recognised only by Turkey.
17 November 1955
Anglesey, North Wales, becomes the first local authority in Britian to introduce flouride into its water supply.
21 November 1918
At the end of World War I, the German Fleet is surrendered to Britain at its northern naval base at Scapa Flow.
29 November 1995
On his historic visit to Britain, US President Bill Clinton praises British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton for their joint efforts to bring peace in Northern Ireland.
6 December 1921
Irish Independence is granted to the 26 states in southern Ireland which become known as the Irish Free State. The six counties of Ulster, in Northern Ireland, remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
9 December 1978
Signing of the Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland.
10 December 1810
Napoleon Bonaparte annexes northern Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck in Germany.
13 December 1976
First oil brought to Britain from the Brent Oil Field in the North Sea.
14 December 1991
Former East German leader Erich Honecker , facing extradition to Germany and trial on manslaughter charges, is offered asylum in North Korea.
17 December 1941
World War II: Japanese troops begin the invasion of North Borneo.
22 December 1968
82 crewmen of US intelligence ship Pueblo are released by North Korea after being held captive for 11 months.
23 December 1905
The earliest recorded British beauty show is held at Newcastle Upon Tyne, in northeast England.
24 December 1942
The French administrator of North Africa, Admiral Jean Darlan, is assassinated in Algiers.
26 December 1943
World War II: the German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk by the Royal Navy.in the North Sea during the Battle of North Cape.
27 December 1965
13 are killed when the 5,600 tonne oil rig Sea Gem capsises in the North Sea.
28 December 1975
Rescue teams fail to reach any of the 372 miners trapped by an underground explosion at a coal mine in north east India.
 

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