1970 The Alliance Party, drawing support from moderate unionists, Catholic liberals and the New Ulster Movement, was founded by Oliver Napier and Robert Cooper.
1926 Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), the first British monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland (May 2011), born, the eldest daughter of King George VI.
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as the ‘Red Baron’, who had 80 victories under his belt, was killed by Allied fire in northern France.
1916 Sir Roger Casement was arrested on Banna Beach, Co. Kerry, after being put ashore by a German submarine.
1816 Charlotte Bronte, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters, author notably of Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), born in Thornton, Yorkshire.
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