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December 9

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1968 Captain Terence O’Neill, prime minister of Northern Ireland, appealed for calm in his ‘Ulster at the Crossroads’ television address.
1960 D.A. Chart, archivist, historian and social scientist who was Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (1924–48), died.
1861 John O’Donovan, official with the Ordnance Survey (1830–42) and leading scholar in the areas of Irish topography, history, genealogy and language, died. His works include translations of the Brehon Laws and the Annals of the Four Masters (1848–51).

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1871 The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin opened with a performance of Goldsmith’s She stoops to conquer.
1869 Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, imprisoned Fenian, was returned as MP in a County Tipperary by-election but was disqualified as a convicted felon.
1812 John Dunlap, printer and publisher, who founded the first American daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet (1771), later the North American and United States Gazette, and printer of the Declaration of Independence (1777), died in Philadelphia.