1922 Eamon de Valera founded Cumann na Poblachta, supported principally by opponents of the Treaty. 1917 Czar Nicholas abdicated. 1767 Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States (1829–1837), born in the Scots-Irish community of Waxhaws district, South Carolina, two years after his family arrived from Ireland. 1999 Rosemary Nelson, human rights solicitor, was killed ... Read more
