2. Veronica Guerin: Investigative Journalist who received international acclaim for her work exposing the increasing drug trade in Ireland. Using unconventional tactics, Guerin continued her reporting despite death threats and attacks.
3. She was shot dead while sitting in her car on 26 June 1986. She was 37 years old. In the aftermath of her death, the Irish Government instated the Proceeds of Crime Act (1996) and the Criminal Assets Bureau Act (1996) whereby any assets purchased using money raised through criminal acts could be seized by the Government.
4. The 1960’s were a time of change for black America. Famous figures such as Malcom X, A. Phillip Randolph, Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King Jr rallied to change America’s then segregated society and campaign for better treatment of all black people. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a dream” speech.
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6. In 1985, Bob Geldof organised a multi-venue rock concert that aimed to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.
7. 181,000 people attended the concerts in London, England and Philadelphia, USA. An estimated 400 million viewers from 60 different countries watched the concert, making it one of the biggest satellite link-ups of all time. $283.6 million dollars was raised through ticket sales alone.
8. Hitler used propaganda and powerful speeches to gain support and become leader of the Nazi party and Fuhrer of Germany.
9. Hitler developed a foreign policy ‘Lebensraum’ (more living space) for Germany and “racial hygiene” became a social policy. Jews, non-Jewish Poles, Communists and political opponents, members of resistance groups, homosexuals, the physically handicapped and mentally retarded, Soviet Prisoners of War, Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, trade unionists, and psychiatric patients were all considered “Life unworthy of life”
10. Between eleven and fourteen million people were killed during the Holocaust. An estimated six million were Jews. Approximately fifty million people died in World War II
