John Hume was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A founder and leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume served in the Parliament of Northern Ireland; the Northern Ireland Assembly including, in 1974, its first power-sharing executive; the European Parliament and the United Kingdom Parliament. Seeking an accommodation between Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism, and soliciting American support, he was both critical of British government policy in Northern Ireland and opposed to the republican embrace of "armed struggle". In their 1998 citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised Hume as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. For his own part, Hume wished to be remembered as having been, in his earlier years, a pioneer of the credit union movement.

Headlines from January 18, 1937

Speeding Car Plunges Through Open Draw, Carrying at Least Two to Death in Jersey

100 CHINESE PERISH IN BLAZING EXPRESS; More Than 50 Hurt When Fire Turns a Canton-Hongkong Train Into Speeding Torch. PANIC IN JAMMED CARS Engineer Goes 15 Miles Before He Learns of Blaze, Which Is Laid to Acid Explosion. Engineer Unaware of Fire 100 CHINESE PERISH IN BLAZING EXPRESS

1,500 DINERS HELD IN HUNT FOR SLAYER; Kept 3 Hours at Manhattan Opera House Fete After Stabbing Amid Throng. POLICE BLOCK ALL EXITS Garment Man Victim of Row at Table--Whalen Listed Among Speakers. Garment Trade Group 1,500 DINERS HELD IN A SLAYER HUNT

CONVICTS RUN WILD IN ONTARIO RIOTING; Control Guelph Reformatory for Hours Before Police and Guards Quell Them. ESCAPE OF 100 REPORTED Several Officers Injured in Outbreak of 700 Prisoners, Who Set Fires in Building. Fugitives Roam Countryside CONVICTS RUN WILD IN ONTARIO RIOTING

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