1979: Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb
The Queen鈥檚 cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was killed by an IRA bomb blast on 27 August 1979.
Lord Mountbatten was aboard his boat, Shadow V, which had just set off from the fishing village of Mullaghmore in the Republic of Ireland.
One of his twin grandsons, Nicholas, and Paul Maxwell, a local employed as a boat boy, also died in the explosion.
This report was originally broadcast on 27 August 1979.