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1187
Saladin captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Happy Yom Kippur by the way as we're in the neighbourhood.
1600
Hugh O'Neill fought Mountjoy's forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass.
1901
The first Royal Navy submarine was launched.
1909
Orville Wright set an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet.
1963
Defence Secretray, Robert McNamara, told President Kennedy "We need a way to get out of Vietnam." McNamara proposed to replace the 16,000 US advisors with Canadian personnel.
1967
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995
The O.J. Simpson trial ended dramatically when the jury reached a verdict in less than four hours. Simpson was acquitted for the double-murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The trial had dragged on for 8 months.
1996
Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 for perjury. He denied at O.J. Simpson's trial that he had ever used the N-word. Unfortunately a recording proved otehrwise.
Happy Birthday to....
Paul von Hindenburg (1847), German Field Marshal during World War I and President of Germany. His full name was Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg.
Ferdinand Foch (1851), French Field Marshal during World War I.
Mahatma Ghandi (1869)
Groucho Marx (1890)
Don McLean (1945)
Gordon Sumner aka Sting (1951)
Lorraine Bracco (1955). She was born to make me happy.
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1691
The Treaty of Limerick was signed by Gen Ginkel and Patrick Sarsfield. It marked the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. The Irish Jacobite army sailed to France.
1750
James McLaine, a highwayman from Monaghan, was hanged at Tyburn.
1871
Gen. John O'Neill and a force of Fenians invaded Canada. Apparently they were trying to drive the British out of Ireland.
1917
A major German attack was repulsed north of Menin road between Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood in the Ypres Salient.
1942
Germany conducted the first successful test flight of a V-2 missile from the Peenemunde test site. It flew 118 miles to an altitude of 53 miles.
1960
CS Felix Grant, from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary died in the Congo. He died of natural causes and has the distinction of being the first Irish soldier to die on UN service.
1975
Dr Tiede Herrema, chief executive of the Dutch Ferenka factory in Limerick, was kidnapped by the IRA.
1981
The Maze hunger strike was called off.
1990
West Germany and East Germany were formally reunified.
1993
Eighteen US Rangers and Delta Force died in Somalia and over 70 were wounded in an attempt to capture a couple of Mohammed Farrah Aidid's deputies. At least 500 Somalis were killed and 1,000 injured.
Airman Steven O'Connor, 73rd Irishbatt, died in Lebanon as a result of an accidental shooting.
Happy Birthday to.....
Niall Quinn, reasonable football player, sh1te manager. Born 1966.
Goodbye to...
Woody Guthrie died at the age of 55 in 1967.0 -
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1539
King Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves. It was not a happy union as Anne was reputedly a bit of a dog. Happily, it was soon discovered that there was a pre-existing marriage contract and the marriage was nullified without recourse to the executioner.:D
1582
Pope Gregory reformed the Julian calendar (dating from 45BC). The reform was not implemented in Ireland until 1752.
1693
The recently-formed Irish Brigade of France fought in the battle of Marsaglia.
1733
Henry Boyle, was elected Speaker of the Irish parliament. He served until
1756. He was created the Earl of Shannon for services rendered.
1777
American forces under Gen. George Washington were defeated by the British in a battle at Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1916
At Le Sars, on the Somme 2/Lt Henry Kelly, Duke of Wellington's Regt twice rallied his company under heavy fire and eventually led his last three men into the German trench, remaining there bombing, until two of his men became casualties and enemy reinforcements arrived. He then rescued his wounded company sergeant-major and other wounded. For which service he received a Victoria Cross. Henry was born in Manchester to an Irish family.
1917
At Zonnebeke, Belgium, Captain Clement Robertson from Delgany, Co. Wicklow, led his tanks into an attack under heavy fire. Capt Robertson led them on foot. He and his batman had spent the previous three days reconnoitring and taping the attack routes. He was killed after the objective had been reached, but his skilful leadership ensured the success of the mission.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Ypres Salient the British advanced on an eight mile front, anticipating by a few minutes a German attack east of Ypres.
In counter-attack Germans regain some ground south-east of Polygon Wood.
1951
Cpl Patrick Sheehan, 3rd Inf Div, from Co. Kerry and PFC Maurice Angland,
1st Cav Div, from Co. Cork died in Korea serving in the US Army.
1957
The Soviet Union launched the first man-made space satellite, Sputnik-1.
1961
A general election in the Irish Republic results in Fianna Fáil gaining 70 seats.
1966
CS James Ryan died in Cyprus serving with the UN.
2002
shoe bomber, Richard Reid, pleaded guilty to charges against him stemming from his alleged effort to detonate explosives hidden in his sneakers during a 2001 Paris-to-Miami flight.
2003
A suicide bomber killed herself and 19 others in an attack on a crowded restaurant in the Israeli city of Haifa.
Happy Birthday to...
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in 1822.
Charlton Heston in 1924 .
Susan Sarandon in 1946.
Authors Jackie Collins and Anne Rice, both in 1941.
Alicia Silverstone in 1976.0
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