1871 The Irish Church Act (1869), whereby the Church of Ireland ceased to exist ‘as an establishment’, came into law. 1892 Ellis Island, the US government’s busiest immigrant inspection station […]
Read More →2006 Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad, having been found guilty of crimes against humanity after a twelve-month trial. 1916 Grigori Rasputin (47), Russian peasant, faith healer and favourite of […]
Read More →1919 Lady (Nancy) Astor became the first woman to take a seat in the Westminster House of Commons. 1956 Ronnie Delaney (21) won a gold medal for Ireland in the […]
Read More →1967 Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (39), Argentine Marxist revolutionary, was captured and summarily executed by CIA-backed Bolivian forces. 1966 David Cameron, Conservative MP for Witney since 2001 and prime minister of […]
Read More →1919 Detective John Hoey, who identified Seán MacDiarmada for the military in 1916, was shot dead outside police HQ in Brunswick Street, Dublin. 1819 James Hack Tuke, Quaker, best remembered […]
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