1920 General Tom Barry’s Cork No. 3 (West Cork) Brigade wiped out an eighteen-man Auxiliary patrol at Kilmichael, on the Macroom–Dunmanway road, Co. Cork. 1979 John Hume MEP was elected leader of the SDLP in succession to Gerry Fitt. 1990 Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister of the UK since May 1979, resigned. She was succeeded ... Read more
