1970 General Charles de Gaulle (79), president of France (1958–69) and great-grandson of Marie Angelique McCartan from County Down, died.
1990 Mary Robinson (46), the Labour Party nominee, was installed as the seventh president of Ireland.
1990 Mary Robinson was elected the first woman president of Ireland, with 39.9% of the vote.
1938 Kristallnacht—‘the night of broken glass’. Gangs of SA storm troopers, SS men and Nazi supporters attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany.
1918 Kaiser William II abdicated and fled to neutral Holland. Germany became a republic.
1891 P. W. Nally (34), Fenian, athlete and co-founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1884), died.
1990 Mary Robinson was sworn in as seventh president of Ireland.
1966 Jack Lynch was elected leader of Fianna Fáil and taoiseach the following day.
1923 Hitler’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch’—an attempted coup d’état by the Nazi party—ended in failure when c. 2,000 Nazis were confronted by a police cordon in Munich city centre, resulting in the deaths of sixteen party members and four police officers.
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Personal Histories
Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
which aims to capture the individual histories of Irish
people both in Ireland and around the world. It is hoped
to build an extensive database reflecting Irish lives,
giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
Click Here to go to the Personal Histories page
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.