1974 Cornelius Ryan, Dublin-born war correspondent and author of the best-selling The longest day (1959), an account of the D-Day landings of 1944, died.
1941 Derek Mahon, leading Irish lyric poet, born in Belfast of Protestant working-class parents (70 today).
1966 Seán T. (Thomas) Ó Ceallaigh/O’Kelly (84), president of Ireland (1945–59), died.
1910 The American Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison, having been convicted of poisoning his wife, Belle, and dismembering her body.
1867 William Phillip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien—the ‘Manchester Martyrs’—were executed in Salford Jail, Manchester, for the murder of a policeman (see 08/12).
1867 William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien—the so-called ‘Manchester Martyrs’—were executed in Salford jail, Manchester, having been convicted of murdering a policeman during the rescue of Thomas J. Kelly and Timothy Deasy from a prison van in the city the previous month.
1814 Elbridge Gerry, vice-president of the United States since 1813, who gave his name to the term ‘gerrymandering’ (the process by which electoral districts are drawn with the aim of aiding the party in power), died.
1923 The mass hunger strike by over 7,000 republican internees in over ten prisons and camps ended after 41 days. Two internees—Denis Barry and Andrew O’Sullivan—died as a result.
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1821 Napoleon Bonaparte (51), outstanding military leader and emperor of the French (1804–14), died from cancer as a prisoner of the British on the island of St Helena.
1980 The Iranian Embassy siege in London ended after five days when the SAS stormed the building, killing all but one of the six members of an Arab terrorist group who had taken 26 people, mainly embassy staff, hostage.
1916 Major John MacBride (47) executed.
1966 In Britain the ‘Moors murders’ trial ended with the sentencing of Ian Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley to terms of life imprisonment.
1808 Sarah Curran, aged 26, youngest daughter of the lawyer John Philpot Curran (1750–1817) and lover of Robert Emmet, died in Hythe, Kent, from tuberculosis.
1879 Isaac Butt, barrister, writer and politician who founded the Home Rule movement (1870), died.
1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher, author notably of the pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (1848) and the three-volume Das Capital (1867), born in Trier, south-west Germany.
1999 Taoiseach Bertie Ahern apologised on behalf of the Irish people to those who had spent their childhoods in residential institutions run by eighteen religious orders, an apology that came before the broadcast of the final episode of the three-part ‘States of Fear’ series by Mary Raftery, which detailed the abuse of children in such institutions. He also announced the setting up of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and the establishment of a Redress Board.
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