1920 The Government of Ireland Bill, primarily an attempt to settle the Ulster question, was introduced in the House of Commons. 1915 Eleven British army soldiers and a French mill-owner […]
Read More →1821 John Keats (25), English Romantic poet, died from tuberculosis in Rome. 1943 Thirty-six orphan girls in the care of the nuns of the Poor Clare Order died in a […]
Read More →1973 Elizabeth Bowen (73), essayist, short-story writer and novelist, notably author of the best-selling The heat of the day (1949), died. 1972 In the wake of Bloody Sunday in Derry, […]
Read More →1972 President Richard Nixon arrived in China on a week-long visit, the first US president to set foot on Chinese soil. 1922 Enlistment began into the police service of the […]
Read More →1921 Twelve Volunteers were shot dead and a further eight taken prisoner when Crown forces surrounded them in a disused farmhouse overlooking the village of Clonmult, near Midleton, Co. Cork. […]
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