March 31
1711
Seven women from Island Magee, Co. Antrim were imprisoned and pilloried for 'bewitching' a woman named Mary Dunbar, who had experienced strange fits and visions.
1790
A quarrel between John Philpot Curran (MP for Kilbeggan) and Robert Hobart (MP for Portarlington) resulted in a duel in which Hobart allowed Curran to fire and then refused to return fire.
1855
Charlotte Bronte, whose father Patrickwas born in Ireland, died.
1871
Arthur Griffith was born in Dublin. He founded Sinn Féin in 1905.
1965
The US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam.
1991
The Warsaw Pact went out of existence.
1992
The U.N. Security Council branded Libya a terrorist state.
2003
Things were heating up nicely as Operation Iraqi Freedom entered Day 13. US-led troops fought pitched battles with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard within 50 miles of Baghdad. B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers struck communication and command centers in Baghdad, and cruise missiles set Iraq's Information Ministry ablaze. The US had lost 40 soldiers KIA, with 25 captured or MIA. Britain had suffered 25 dead. Things were still not going well at Umm Qasr.
Meanwhile American troops at a checkpoint between Karbala and Najaf shot and killed 10 Iraqi women and children when a van failed to stop. NBC sacked reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the US war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. Arnett got a job with the Daily Mirror.
An EU peacekeeping mission in Macedonia began without an Irish input because the mission was not a UN sponsored one due to a Chinese veto in the Security Council. And the reason was that Macedonia had recognised Taiwan as a sovereign state.
Died
1916
6589 Pte Thomas Dalton. 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at Home. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
1917
27086 Pte Peter Doyle. 16th Bn Yorks and Lancs. Died in England. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1918
25578 Pte Denis Mackey, 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
1969
L/Cpl Peter Nee from Galway was killed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, serving with the 1st Marine Division.
1711
Seven women from Island Magee, Co. Antrim were imprisoned and pilloried for 'bewitching' a woman named Mary Dunbar, who had experienced strange fits and visions.
1790
A quarrel between John Philpot Curran (MP for Kilbeggan) and Robert Hobart (MP for Portarlington) resulted in a duel in which Hobart allowed Curran to fire and then refused to return fire.
1855
Charlotte Bronte, whose father Patrickwas born in Ireland, died.
1871
Arthur Griffith was born in Dublin. He founded Sinn Féin in 1905.
1965
The US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam.
1991
The Warsaw Pact went out of existence.
1992
The U.N. Security Council branded Libya a terrorist state.
2003
Things were heating up nicely as Operation Iraqi Freedom entered Day 13. US-led troops fought pitched battles with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard within 50 miles of Baghdad. B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers struck communication and command centers in Baghdad, and cruise missiles set Iraq's Information Ministry ablaze. The US had lost 40 soldiers KIA, with 25 captured or MIA. Britain had suffered 25 dead. Things were still not going well at Umm Qasr.
Meanwhile American troops at a checkpoint between Karbala and Najaf shot and killed 10 Iraqi women and children when a van failed to stop. NBC sacked reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the US war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. Arnett got a job with the Daily Mirror.
An EU peacekeeping mission in Macedonia began without an Irish input because the mission was not a UN sponsored one due to a Chinese veto in the Security Council. And the reason was that Macedonia had recognised Taiwan as a sovereign state.
Died
1916
6589 Pte Thomas Dalton. 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at Home. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
1917
27086 Pte Peter Doyle. 16th Bn Yorks and Lancs. Died in England. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1918
25578 Pte Denis Mackey, 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
1969
L/Cpl Peter Nee from Galway was killed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, serving with the 1st Marine Division.
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