1971 The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was founded by Revd Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal, a former member of the Stormont parliament who had been expelled from the Ulster Unionist Party.
1921 Dáil Éireann sanctioned the appointment of five republican delegates to meet British representatives in London.
1920 Seán Treacy of the IRA’s 3rd Tipperary Brigade was killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis—a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other—began when a US plane captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.
1928 Dublin’s Gate Theatre, founded by Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammóir, opened with a production of Peer Gynt.
1920 Seán Treacy of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, IRA, was killed in a gun-battle in Talbot Street, Dublin, in which two Auxiliaries were also killed.
1918 The Newry and Dundalk Steam Packet Company’s SS Dundalk was sunk by a German U-boat seventeen miles south-west of the Isle of Man. Twenty sailors were killed and a dozen others were rescued.
1917 Nathaniel Hone (86), artist, best remembered for his landscapes and seascapes, died.
1817 John Philpot Curran (67), lawyer and nationalist, whose daughter, Sarah, was engaged to Robert Emmet, died.
1814 Thomas Davis, poet, cultural nationalist and unofficial leader of the Young
1318 The Battle of Faughart, north of Dundalk, Co. Louth, in which Edward Bruce, self-proclaimed high king of Ireland, was defeated and killed by an Anglo-Norman force under the command of John de Birmingham and the archbishop of Armagh.
1318 The Battle of Faughart, Co. Louth. Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce, king of Scots and self-proclaimed ‘king of Ireland’, was defeated and killed by an Anglo-Norman force under the command of John de Birmingham and the archbishop of Armagh.
Ireland movement, born in Mallow, Co. Cork.
1066 The Battle of Hastings, in which the Saxon King Harold Godwineson was defeated by an invasion force led by William, duke of Normandy, latterly ‘William the Conqueror’.
