1820 Sir William Howard Russell, one of the first modern war correspondents, whose coverage included the Crimean War and the American Civil War, born in Tallaght, Dublin. 1969 Death of Dwight […]
Read More →1972 Eight people, seven of them young girls, died when fire destroyed the offices of Noyek’s timber merchants in Parnell Street, Dublin. 1972 Eight people, seven of them young girls, […]
Read More →1922 An army convention held in the Mansion House, attended by 220 delegates representing 52 of the IRA’s 73 brigades, repudiated the authority of Dáil Éireann. 2000 Vladimir Putin, who had […]
Read More →1981 The government and Dáil Éireann condemned the decision of the IRFU to send an Irish national rugby team to South Africa. 1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European […]
Read More →1972 Following the resignation of the Northern Ireland prime minister, Brian Faulkner, and his cabinet over the transfer of security to Westminster, Prime Minister Edward Heath announced that the Northern […]
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