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* 5 July - Toxteth riots break out in
Liverpool and first use is made of CS
gas by British police. Less serious
riots occur in the Handsworth district
of Birmingham as well as Wolverhampton
city centre, parts of Coventry,
Leicester and Derby, and also in the
Buckinghamshire town High Wycombe.
* 7 July - 43 people are charged with
theft and violent disorder following a
riot in Wood Green, North London.
* 8 July - Joe McDonnell becomes the
fifth IRA hunger striker to die.
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