December 9

1968 Captain Terence O’Neill, prime minister of Northern Ireland, appealed for calm in his ‘Ulster at the Crossroads’ television address. 1960 D.A. Chart, archivist, historian and social scientist who was Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (1924–48), died. 1861 John O’Donovan, official with the Ordnance Survey (1830–42) and leading scholar in ... Read more

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