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July 01

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1970 ‘For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch’—Reginald Maudling, British Home Secretary, on his flight back to London after his first visit to Northern Ireland.
1916 Battle of the Somme. In the first two days 5,500 men of the 36th (Ulster) Division were killed or wounded.
1916 The Battle of the Somme began. Inthe bloodiest single day in the history of the British Army, 19,240 British soldiers were killed, including c.2,000 Irishmen.
1867 Thomas Francis Meagher (44), Young Irelander, soldier and latterly acting governor of Montana Territory, mysteriously disappeared from a steamer on the Mississippi.
The British North America Act established Canada as a federal dominion.
1690 Battle of the Boyne, the first major battle in the Williamite Wars (1689–91).

On this Day

1921 The draft of the Articles of Agreement (Treaty), discussed at the London talks during October and November, was presented to the cabinet in Dublin and rejected.
1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (78), leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, died.
1972 The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Bill was passed by Dáil Éireann by 69 votes to 22. Fine Gael dropped its opposition to the bill after two bombs exploded in the centre of Dublin, killing two men and injuring over a hundred others, two days previously.
1925 The British, Irish and Northern Irish governments agreed to shelve the report of the Boundary Commission (1924–5) and to recognise the existing border as fixed by the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) and the Government of Ireland Act (1920).