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Rt. Hon. John Smith, leader of the Labour Party died.
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Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place at Westminster Abbey.
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Irish Patriots, Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly are executed at Kilmainham Gaol
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Mary Browne from Roscommon becomes the first Ban Garda, a woman police officer.
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Daniel O'Connell founds the Catholic Association, an organization dedicated to obtaining the franchise for Catholics
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James Shields, US army general, the only person to be elected a senator by 3 states, is born in Altmore, Co. Tyrone
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J.S. Knowles, dramatist and Baptist preacher, is born in Cork
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Archibald Hamilton Rowan, nationalist and United Irishman, is born in London
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The Black Watch regiment was commissioned under General Wade to police the Highlands.
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Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland and Earl of Stafford is beheaded
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Community in Iona founded in Scotland by Saint Colmcille and followers from Ireland
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Community of Iona founded by Colum Cille (St Columba) from Ireland
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