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Events on Tuesday 6 April 1926 1
1926 – 2014Ian Paisley (1926-2014)Died 12 September 2014, aged 88Ian Paisley, the firebrand Protestant preacher and politician who became Northern Ireland's first minister after decades opposing power-sharing with Irish nationalists, died in Belfast. He founded the Democratic Unionist Party and the Free Presbyterian Church. His late-career political partnership with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness surprised many observers.