1981 Donal Foley (59), deputy editor of the Irish Times, best known for his satirical column ‘Man Bites Dog’, died.
1980 Detective Garda John Morley (37) and Garda Henry Byrne (29) were killed in a shoot-out with three raiders who had stolen £35,000 from a bank in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon.
1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, theatre manager and playwright, notably of The rivals (1775) and The school for scandal (1777), died.
1922 Cathal Brugha was killed in Dublin, fighting on the Republican side in the Civil War.
1972 Secretary of State William Whitelaw met the IRA leadership, including Seán Mac Stiofáin, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, for talks in London.
1973 General Seán MacEoin (79), IRA commander during the War of Independence, chief-of-staff of the National Army (1923–9) and Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael politician, died.
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Personal Histories
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giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
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1869 Birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens, acclaimed British architect, whose works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge, Dublin.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott (43) died in Antarctica whilst returning from his expedition to the South Pole.
1859 The first edition of The Irish Times, Ireland’s first daily penny newspaper, appeared.
1793 Charlotte Brooke (c. 52), poet and translator, notably of Reliques of Irish poetry (1789), a collection of Ulster songs and poems in their original Irish forms along with her own translations, died. A daughter of the writer Henry Brooke (c. 1703–83), she was an ancestor of Lord Brookeborough, prime minister of Northern Ireland (1943–63).
1973 The last US serviceman departed from Vietnam. The Vietnam War claimed the lives of 58,281 US servicemen.