1970 General Charles de Gaulle (79), president of France (1958–69) and great-grandson of Marie Angelique McCartan from County Down, died.
1990 Mary Robinson (46), the Labour Party nominee, was installed as the seventh president of Ireland.
1990 Mary Robinson was elected the first woman president of Ireland, with 39.9% of the vote.
1938 Kristallnacht—‘the night of broken glass’. Gangs of SA storm troopers, SS men and Nazi supporters attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany.
1918 Kaiser William II abdicated and fled to neutral Holland. Germany became a republic.
1891 P. W. Nally (34), Fenian, athlete and co-founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1884), died.
1990 Mary Robinson was sworn in as seventh president of Ireland.
1966 Jack Lynch was elected leader of Fianna Fáil and taoiseach the following day.
1923 Hitler’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch’—an attempted coup d’état by the Nazi party—ended in failure when c. 2,000 Nazis were confronted by a police cordon in Munich city centre, resulting in the deaths of sixteen party members and four police officers.
