Ireland

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Dr. Douglas Hyde inaugurated as first President of Ireland; Seán T OCeallaigh, Eamon de Valera and Erskine Childers were all installed on the same day in 1945, 1959 and 1973 respectively

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The Marquess of Bute sold half of the city of Cardiff for £20 million, at that time the biggest-ever British property deal

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Frank Patterson, tenor, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

ireland

Robert and Edward Kennedy, youngest sons of the American Ambassador to London, open the children’s zoo in Regent’s Park. Children are charged sixpence to watch chimpanzees have a tea party

ireland

Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland

ireland

The first traffic lights in the Free State are installed at the junction of Merrion Square and Clare Street

ireland

Birth of Donald Dewar, former Secretary of State for Scotland and First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament.

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A Luftwaffe bomb kills 13 people in Belfast, known as the Belfast Blitz

ireland