1981 The government and Dáil Éireann condemned the decision of the IRFU to send an Irish national rugby team to South Africa.
1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC).
1996 Mary Lavin, short-story writer (notably of ‘Tales from Bective Bridge’) and novelist, died.
1987 Lord Justice Gibson, of the Northern Ireland judiciary, and his wife were killed by an IRA car-bomb as they drove across the border to link up with an RUC escort.
1942 In the wake of the arrival of American forces in Northern Ireland, the northern command of the IRA, under its new commander, Hugh McAteer, resolved to take action ‘by sabotage of war industries and enemy military objectives by a semi-military force’.
1920 Demobilised British servicemen, recruited as reinforcements to the RIC, arrived in Ireland. They soon became known as the ‘Black and Tans’.
1916 Charlotte Milligan Fox, folk music collector and sister of the writer Alice Milligan, died.
1864 Charlotte Milligan Fox, folk music collector who founded the Irish Folk Song Society (1904) and elder sister of the writer and Gaelic League organiser Alice Milligan, died.
1963 Lord Brookborough retired as prime minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. He was succeeded by Captain Terence O’Neill.
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1960 Down, captained by Kieran Mussen, became the first team from Northern Ireland to win the Sam Maguire Cup in Gaelic football when they defeated Kerry 2-10 to 0-8.
1917 Thomas Ashe, teacher and revolutionary, died in Mountjoy Jail as a result of force-feeding.Thomas Ashe (32) died in Mountjoy Prison after being forcibly fed whilst on hunger strike.
1914 On a two-day visit to Ireland, Prime Minister H.H. Asquith shared a platform with John Redmond at a recruiting meeting at the Mansion House.
1917 The 1916 veteran and republican leader Thomas Ashe dies in Dublin’s Mater Hospital after being force-fed by the British authorities while on hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison.