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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1969 Robert Briscoe (75), Dáil deputy for 38 years and the first Jewish lord mayor of Dublin (1956), died.
1914 The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland sank on the St Lawrence River after colliding with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad; 1,012 passengers and crew died.
1972 The Official IRA ordered a cessation of hostilities following the killing, four days earlier, of Ranger William Best while visiting his family.
1660 Charles II entered London, marking the restoration of the monarchy. He had been proclaimed king of Ireland on 14 May.
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961–3), born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children of businessman Joe Kennedy and philanthropist/socialite Rose Fitzgerald.