1922 At a meeting of members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, attended by 60 pro-Treaty TDs and four Unionist MPs (Dublin University) but boycotted by anti-Treaty MPs, resolutions were passed approving the Treaty and setting up a Provisional Government under the chairmanship of Michael Collins.
1864 Fr Nicholas Callan, pioneer in the development of electrical science, died.
1981 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, MP for Mid-Ulster (1969–74), and her husband Michael were seriously wounded in a loyalist gun attack on their home at Derrylaughan, Co. Tyrone.
1780 Baptismal date of Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Gray, a celebrated beauty who, mounted on a white horse and carrying a green flag, rallied the rebel forces at the Battle of Ballynahinch (June 1798).
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Personal Histories
Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
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1920 Recruitment began, mainly from among demobilised British Army officers, into a new force—the ‘Auxiliary Division’—to augment the RIC.
1939 Michael Longley, poet, notable for ‘Gorse Fires’ (1991), ‘The Weather in Japan’ (2000) and ‘The Stairwell’ (2014), born in Belfast of English parents.
2004 Bob Tisdall (96), Olympic gold medal-winner in the 400m hurdles (Los Angeles, 1932) in a world record time of 51.7 seconds—which was not recognised under the rules at the time because he had hit a hurdle—died.
1866 The SS Great Eastern completed the laying of a transatlantic telegraph cable between Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
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