Nick Maxwell

1871 The Great Fire of Chicago broke out, reputedly in Mrs O’Leary’s barn, when a cow upset a lantern. Over three days c. 300 lives were lost and over 100,000 residents left homeless. 1974 Seán MacBride became the first Irish citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. 1967 Clement Attlee (84), Labour prime minister of the … Read more

1871 Sir Thomas Deane (79), builder and architect, notably of the National Library and National Museum in Kildare Street, Dublin, died. 1871 Sir Thomas Deane (79), builder and architect, notably of the National Library and National Museum in Kildare Street, Dublin, died. 1869 Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, born … Read more

1967 Sir John Cockcroft (70), British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atom with Irishman Ernest Walton (1903–95), died. 1964 Seán O’Casey (84), playwright, died. 1914 The Home Rule Act was suspended for the duration of the war. 1867 Col. Thomas J. Kelly (Head Centre of the IRB) and Capt. … Read more